Eco-restructuring: Implications for sustainable development (UNU, 1998, 417 pages): Part I: Restructuring resource use: 2. The biophysical basis of eco-restructuring: An overview of current relations between human economic activities and the global system: (introductory text...)

Eco-restructuring: Implications for sustainable development (UNU, 1998, 417 pages)

Part I: Restructuring resource use

2. The biophysical basis of eco-restructuring: An overview of current relations between human economic activities and the global system

		*(introductory text...)*
		Introduction
		The earth system
		The climate system and climatic change
		Climatic change and vulnerability
		Biological diversity
		Fresh water
		Soils
		The solid earth (lithosphere)
		Land-cover and land-use changes
		Human impacts and industrial metabolism
		The case of West Africa
		Outlook

Walther Manshard