ONE EARTH ONE FUTURE -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- THE EARTH AS A SYSTEM -- 2 A New Science of the Earth -- 3 Lessons from the Geologic Past -- FORMATION OF THE OZONE SHIELD -- PANGAEA -- THE ICE AGES -- THE CURRENT WARM PHASE -- 4 System Interactions: Atmosphere, Oceans, Land, and Humans -- ATMOSPHERE -- OCEANS -- LAND -- THE WATER CYCLE -- HUMAN INTERACTIONS -- 5 Humanity: An Agent of Global Environmental Change -- POPULATION, AFFLUENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY: HOW HUMANS CHANGE THE ENVIRONMENT -- CHANGING THE FACE OF THE EARTH: AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY -- THE FUTURE -- THE FACES OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE -- 6 Global Warming -- GREENHOUSE GASES -- THE CLIMATE'S RESPONSE TO GREENHOUSE GASES -- DO WE KNOW ENOUGH TO ACT? -- 7 Food, Water, and Changing Climate -- THE GLOBAL HARVEST -- THE EFFECT OF GLOBAL WARMING ON FOOD PRODUCTION -- WATER SUPPLY, IRRIGATION, AND THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE -- EXPLORING AVENUES FOR ADAPTATION -- 8 Coastlines and Rising Seas -- THE HUMAN COSTS OF RISING SEA LEVEL -- THE PLIGHT OF THE DELTAS -- PREPARING FOR RISING SEAS -- 9 The Ozone Layer and Ultraviolet Radiation -- CHEMISTRY OF THE OZONE LAYER -- STUDYING THE ANTARCTIC OZONE HOLE -- OZONE DEPLETION IN OTHER LATITUDES -- EFFECTS ON LIFE -- NATIONS JOINING TO PROTECT THE OZONE LAYER -- 10 Vanishing Forests and Vanishing Species -- WHY ARE THE FORESTS DISAPPEARING? -- SOIL EROSION, RAIN MACHINES, AND CARBON -- VANISHING SPECIES -- PROTECTING THE FOREST RESOURCES -- 11 Lakes, Forests, and Acid Deposition -- THE ACIDIFICATION PROCESS -- LAKES -- FORESTS -- BUILDINGS AND MONUMENTS -- CONTROLLING ACID DEPOSITION -- AFTERWORD -- Global Change and Our Common Future -- APPENDIXES -- A Selected Reading -- B Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future: Agenda and Speakers -- C Committee on Global Change and Oversight Committee Members.

AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR OVERSIGHT OF THE COMMITTEE ON GLOBAL CHANGE -- D Letter on Global Environmental Change to President-Elect George Bush -- PREFACE -- GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE -- WHAT ACTIONS ARE SUGGESTED? -- Preventing Global Environmental Change -- Energy Policy -- Policies to Reduce Industrial Emissions -- Development Policy -- Adapting to Global Environmental Change -- Improving Understanding of Global Environmental Change -- Institutional Needs -- PRINCIPAL SCIENTIFIC ISSUES -- Climate Change -- Tropical Deforestation -- Stratospheric Ozone Depletion -- Acid Deposition -- Index.