Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How to Use This Book -- PART I APPROACHES -- CHAPTER 1 Information on Issues of Global Change -- CHAPTER 2 Epidemiological Study Designs -- CHAPTER 3 Geographic Information Systems -- CHAPTER 4 The Science/Policy Interface -- CHAPTER 5 Integrated Assessment -- PART II ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES -- CHAPTER 6 Human Populations in the Shared Environment -- CHAPTER 7 The Changing Chemistry of Earth's Atmosphere -- CHAPTER 8 An Earth Science Perspective on Global Change -- CHAPTER 9 Water Resources Management -- CHAPTER 10 Ecology and Infectious Disease -- PART III CASE STUDIES -- CHAPTER 11 Cholera and Global Ecosystems -- CHAPTER 12 Malaria and Global Ecosystem Change -- CHAPTER 13 Global Climate Change and Air Pollution -- CHAPTER 14 Too Little, Too Much -- APPENDIX A Stimulating Inquiry -- APPENDIX B The Resource Center -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Index.