Global Resources and the Environment

Preface; Part I. Introduction, Dynamic Systems, and Change: 1. Socio-environmental systems; 2. A perspective on dynamic systems; 3. Change, sustainability, and resilience; Part II. People: 4. Where people live, communicate, and interact; 5. People, societies, populations, and changes; 6. Resources, governments, and other social influences; Part III. Climates: 7. Global distribution of climates; 8. Greenhouse gases, atmosphere, and climates; 9. Past and future climate changes; Part IV. Landforms: 10. Landforms and soils; 11. Bedrock landforms; 12. Landforms of transported materials; Part V. Biodiversity: 13. Biodiversity: individual species; 14. Biodiversity: communities and landscapes; 15. Robust and threatened species, communities; 16. Managing biodiversity; Part VI. Water: 17. The hydrologic cycle; 18. The annual hydrograph and water use; 19. Managing and mitigating the hydrologic system; Part VII. Agriculture: 20. Food groups and nutrition; 21. Agriculture and the green revolution; 22. Future agriculture production and distribution; Part VIII. Energy: 23. Energy sources, the energy cycle, exergy; 24. Conserving energy and renewable energy; 25. Future energy: reducing fossil fuel use; Part IX. Minerals: 26. Rocks and mineral properties, mining; 27. Rocks and minerals: production, use, and distribution; Part X. Forests: 28. Forests, ecosystem services, and timber; 29. Forest distribution, area, and volume changes; 30. Silviculture, forest degradation, and landscape management; Part XI. Perspective: 31. Integrating the environment, resources, and people; Appendix I. Country groups used in analyses; Appendix II. Elements, chemical symbols, atomic numbers, and masses; Index.