Environmental Concerns: An Inter-disciplinary Exercise

1 Environmental Change - Problems and Options.- 2. The Long Perspective.- 3. The Evolution of the Environmental Engineer.- 4. The Environmental Issue and Medicine.- 5. Environmental Problems in Food Production, Processing and Preservation.- 6. Energy and Environment: Confrontation or Compromise?.- 7. Meteorology.- 8. The World's Wetlands Under Threat - Developing Wise Use and International Stewardship.- 9. Understanding the Forest Ecosystem - A Prerequisite for Survival.- 10. The Conservation of Biological Diversity: Using Birds to set Priorities.- 11. Microbial Ecology and Population Biology.- 12. Insects, Man and Environment: Who will Survive?.- 13. Man as Selector - A Darwinian Boomerang Striking Through Natural Selection.- 14. Philosophy and the Environmental Crisis.- 15. Plural Rationalities: The Rudiments of a Practical Science of the Inchoate.- 16. The Formation of Green Parties Environmentalism, State Response and Political Entrepreneurship.- 17. Urban Green Oases and Recreational Areas.- Index of Contributors.