Forces of change : a new view of nature.
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History : National Geographic Society, c2000.
- 256 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.
Includes index.
Nature of change / New frontiers, new explorations / Climate surprises / Changing landscape of knowledge / Streams of consciousness / Force of city life on Earth / Global synergies / Interfering with elemental cycles / Scales of change / Time in rocks, history in bones / Pleasures of change / Microbial minds / What they will know / Bigger storms brewing / Learning from Ladakh / Along Magadi Road, Kenya / Changing places in Africa / Winds of change / Leave it to the school children / Deadly walls of water / Biodiversity and happiness / To quench the thirst of cities / Natural history and the 21st century / Daniel B. Botkin -- Alan Cutler -- Jonathan Overpeck -- Bernice Wuethrich / Alan Cutler -- Barbara Boyle Torrey -- William Melson -- Alan Cutler -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Alan Cutler and Anna K. Behrensmeyer -- Dorion Sagan and Eric D. Schneider -- Lynn Margulis -- David Quammen -- adapted from National Geographic -- Helena Norberg-Hodge -- Bernice Wuethrich / Edward S. Ayensu -- Michael Garstang -- George P. Horse Capture -- Tom O'Neill -- Gretchen C. Daily -- Gretchen C. Daily -- Robert Fri.
142620017X 9781426200175
2007298359
Natural history.
Human ecology.
Global environmental change.
Earth.
QH45.2 / .F67 2006
Includes index.
Nature of change / New frontiers, new explorations / Climate surprises / Changing landscape of knowledge / Streams of consciousness / Force of city life on Earth / Global synergies / Interfering with elemental cycles / Scales of change / Time in rocks, history in bones / Pleasures of change / Microbial minds / What they will know / Bigger storms brewing / Learning from Ladakh / Along Magadi Road, Kenya / Changing places in Africa / Winds of change / Leave it to the school children / Deadly walls of water / Biodiversity and happiness / To quench the thirst of cities / Natural history and the 21st century / Daniel B. Botkin -- Alan Cutler -- Jonathan Overpeck -- Bernice Wuethrich / Alan Cutler -- Barbara Boyle Torrey -- William Melson -- Alan Cutler -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Alan Cutler and Anna K. Behrensmeyer -- Dorion Sagan and Eric D. Schneider -- Lynn Margulis -- David Quammen -- adapted from National Geographic -- Helena Norberg-Hodge -- Bernice Wuethrich / Edward S. Ayensu -- Michael Garstang -- George P. Horse Capture -- Tom O'Neill -- Gretchen C. Daily -- Gretchen C. Daily -- Robert Fri.
142620017X 9781426200175
2007298359
Natural history.
Human ecology.
Global environmental change.
Earth.
QH45.2 / .F67 2006