Summary and Conclusions
Regional syntheses have been carried out for four regions of the developing world: Southern Africa, South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia. Understanding the Earth System requires that the two-way linkages between regions and the global system be well u
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Peter Tyson . Roland Fuchs · Congbin Fu . Louis Lebel . A .P. Mitra Eric Odada . John Perry . Will Steffen . Hassan Virji (Eds.)
Global-Regional Linkages in the Earth System
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Peter Tyson Climatology Research Group University of the Witwatersrand PO Wits, Johannesburg, 2050 SOUTH AFRICA
Congbin Fu
Eric Odada
START TEA RC Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 2718 Qijia Huo Zi, De Wai Street, Chao Yang District Beijing 100029 CHINA
Department of Geology University of Nairobi Box 30197 Nairobi KENYA
Roland Fuchs International START Secretariat 2000 Florida Ave. NW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20009 USA
lohn Perry 6205 Tellyho Lane Alexandria, VA 22307 USA
Will Steifen
Department of Social Science Chiang Mai University THAILAND
IGBP Secretariat The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Box 50005 S-104 05 Stockholm SWEDEN
A.P. Mitra
Hassan Virji
National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi K. S. Krishnan Road New Delhi 110012 INDIA
International START Secretariat 200 Florida Ave. NW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20009 USA
Louis Lebel
Die Deutsche Biliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Global regionallinkages in the earth system: with 43 tables I Peter Tyson ... (ed.). - Berlin; Heidelberg; New York; Barcelona; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan; Paris; Tokyo : Springer, 2002 (Global change) ISBN 978-3-642-62693-7 ISBN 978-3-642-56228-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-56228-0
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Preface
Global environmental change occupies a central niche in the pantheon of modern sciences. There is an urgent need to know and understand the way in which global biogeochemical cycles have changed over
