Mangrove Ecosystems - Function and Management (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)

Protection of the environment has nowadays become a major challenge and a condi tion for survival of future human generations and life on Earth in general. Yet it is still far too much of a dream or hope rather than a reality in the policy of our societies. Presently we are experiencing an unprecedented exponential growth of demography combined with a race for profit, resulting in excessive consumption particularly of en ergy, and a serious impact on the world ecosystems. Various types of pollutants and emerging new diseases not only disrupt the normal course of life, but also above this some of the atmospheric pollutants are most likely involved in the changing climate. We fear and literally shiver at the thought that the "changing climate" would ultimately disrupt the fragile thermodynamic equilibrium between the atmosphere and the oceans. Are we insensitive to these facts to the point of pushing our descendants, some genera tions ahead, into a new glacial period after a first period of warming up, at least, in northern Europe, like the one that took place 13 to 14 millennia ago? Surely the planet's nature is not prepared to be dominated by man and will go its way, whether humanity will be alive or dead."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Environmental Science and Engineering
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	2002
Editors:	Luiz Drude de Lacerda
Authors:	Volker Linneweber
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	298
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-07585-8
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > Biodiversity Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General Promotions
LSN:	3-642-07585-1
Barcode:	9783642075858

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