ix, 389 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
English
9781569734438 1569734437 08870403
Environmental health. Natural resources – Health aspects. Environmental degradation – Health aspects. Environmental health – Handbooks, manuals, etc. Human beings – Effect of environment on. Conservation of Natural Resources.
RA565. / W675 2000
Library of Congress Classification / Environment
3ACKU000084656
Abstract: Considers ecological systems on a worldwide basis and analyzes their present health. Considers five major ecosystems--agricultural, coastal, forest, freshwater, and grasslands--on a worldwide basis and examines the polar and urban ecosystems more briefly. Contains statistics, vignettes of human activities relating to the five ecosystems.