Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction - How to Use This Book * Glossary * Introduction * The World Directory and the World Wide Web * Some Landmark Events * Part 2: Who's Doing What: Problems, Resources, and Biomes - Broad Concerns * Agriculture and Environmental Protection * Air Quality * Appropriate Technology * Arid Lands * Biodiversity * Biotechnology * Business and the Environment * Caves * Climate and Global Environmental Change * Communications Media * Conflict and the Environment * Cultural Heritage * Development and the Environment * Economic Aspects * Education and Training * Energy, Geology, and Mining * Fish and Fisheries * Forests and Forestry * Future Grasslands * Grasslands * Hazardous Materials * Health and the Environment * Human Settlements * Indigenous Peoples and the Traditional Ecological Knowledge * Lakes, Rivers, and Waterways * Landscape Architecture * Land Use * Law and Legal Action * Mountains * Natural Areas, Parks, and Wilderness * Noise * Nuclear Energy and Radiation * Occupational Safety and Health * Oceans, Coastal Zones, and Islands * Pest Management * Plants * Polar Zones * Politics and Policy Processes * Population and Growth Management * Religion, the Humanities, and Environmental Protection * Social Science and Psychology * Soil * Solid Waste and Resource Recovery * Specialized Support Services * Tourism Impacts * Transportation and Environmental Protection * Tropical Ecosystems * Water * Wetlands * Wildlife * Women and the Environment * Youth and the Environment * Part 3: The World Regions: An Overview ? Africa * Antarctica and the Southern Ocean * Arctic Ocean * Atlantic Ocean * East and South Asia * Europe * Indian Ocean * Latin America and the Caribbean * North America * Oceania * Pacific Ocean * West and Central Asia * Part 4: The United Nations ? The United Nations * Specialized Agencies of the United Nations * Other Organizations * Part 5: Other Governmental Organizations * Part 6: International Non-Governmental Organizations * Part 7: Country and Area Listings * Index: Countries; International and Selected National Organizations

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Thaddeus C. Trzyna, Julie Didion

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