Description
Introduction — From Small Groups to Large: The Impact of Hunting, Farming, and Cities — The Impact of Early People on the Environment: The Case of Large Mammal Extinctions — The Impact of Food Production: Short-Term Strategies and Long-Term Consequences — The Epidemiology of Civilization — The Industrial Era: New Societies, New Technologies, New Problems — The Revolution in the Family and the World We Have Made — Pollution and the Emergence of Industrial America — Exhaustibility of British Coal in Long-Run Perspective — The Environment Goes Global: Issues of the Late Twentieth Century — Global Climate Change — Global Water Resources: The Coming Crises — Tropical Forests and Human Society — Designing the Future: Coping with the Crises — Creating an International Process to Address Greenhouse Warming — Human Impacts — African Search for Solutions — Transitions to a Sustainable Society
