This Agenda set forth strategies and measures aimed at halting and reversing the effects of environmental degradation and promoting environmentally sound and sustainable development throughout the world . In UNCED's Guide to Agenda 21 ...

... strong nega- tive impacts on the environment , periodical life - threaten- ing and expensive natural disasters are part of life in these subregions , and the prospect of a sea - level rise as a consequence of global climate change ...

Climate change is considered one of the most serious global environmental threats of our time . The impacts are expected to be particularly negative in developing countries , whose economies and societies are extremely vulnerable and ...

Such efforts would help define appropriate measures of global climate change , determine the implications for intertwined ecological and economic systems , and identify appropriate technological and policy responses .

Desert of trees : The environmental and social impacts of largescale tropical reforestation in response to global climate change . Londres , Friends of the Earth . 62 p . BAZZAZ , F.A .; BAJER , E.D. 1992. Plant life in a CO2 rich world ...

Desert of trees: The environmental and social impacts of large- scale tropical reforestation in response to global climate change. Londres, Friends of the Earth. 62 p. BAZZAZ, F.A.; BAJER, E.D. 1 992. Plant life in a C02 rich world.

Today's major research programs on global change - the World Climate Research Program ( WCRP ) ... The origins , the impacts , and the options for managing global environmental change will be different in different parts of the World ...

Tree planting for industrial , social , environmental , and agroforestry purposes , 2nd ed . Clarendon Press , Oxford , England , 403 pp . Fearnside , P. M. 1995. Global warming response options in Brazil's forest sector : Comparison of ...

Mitigation and adaptation to climate change Human activities have had an impact on the environment since prehistoric times . At the beginning of the last century , the aggregation of human - caused environmental impacts in space and ...