Coming Back to Earth: South Africa's Changing EnvironmentThis book is a current, comprehensive and holistic assessment of the challenges facing a developing African state within the global context and is an up-to-the-minute review of the state of the South African environment. |
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Contents
The Nature of the Beast | 1 |
The Insane Experiment | 21 |
The Greenhouse Effect | 51 |
The Hole in the Ozone | 66 |
Trees Nukes and meeting the Carbon Challenge | 72 |
A Billion Mobile Chemical Plants | 89 |
Who cares for the Public? | 101 |
Fickle Rivers | 112 |
The Red Blood of the Earth | 193 |
The Death of the Forests | 231 |
Silent Spring | 245 |
Variety the Spice of Life | 263 |
Population and the Wild Card AIDS | 288 |
The Built Environment | 310 |
Space Age or GarbAge | 335 |
The Untrod Years | 355 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Coming Back to Earth: South Africa's Changing Environment |
| Authors | James Clarke, David Holt-Biddle |
| Illustrated by | Julie Havemann |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Jacana Media, 2002 |
| ISBN | 1919777938, 9781919777931 |
| Length | 374 pages |
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