edited by Thackwray S. Driver and Graham P. Chapman.
New York :
Routledge,
1996.
xii, 275 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Conflicting time-scales : politics, the media, and the environment / John Gordon -- Environmental destruction in Southern Africa ; soil erosion, animals, and pastures over the longer term / William Beinart -- Reframing forest history : a radical reappraisal of the roles of people and climate in West African vegetation change / James Fairhead and Melissa Leach -- Economic action and the environment : problems of time and predictability / Malte Faver and John L.R. Proops -- India, development and environmental change / Graham P. Chapman -- Conclusion / Thackwray S. Driver and Graham P. Chapman.
Time, mankind, and the earth / Graham P. Chapman and Thackwray S. Driver -- Long-term environmental stability and instability in the tropics and subtropics / Neil Roberts -- The century time-scale / Jean Grove -- Identifying the time-scales of environmental change : the instrumental record / Nicholas J. Clifford and John McClatchey -- Future global warming : resolving the climatologist and economist conflict / Max Wallis -- Greenhouse policy development and the influence of the climate change prediction timetable : an Australian perspective / Ros Taplin.