Coming Back to Earth: South Africa's Changing EnvironmentJacana Media, 2002 - 374 Seiten This 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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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 |
The Big Drinkers | 123 |
Squeezing the Sponge | 142 |
The Last Resource | 164 |
ENDNOTES | 362 |
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Affairs and Tourism agricultural air pollution annual apartheid areas become biggest Cape Town carbon cent century CFCs chemicals cities coal coastal conservation cost countries country's crops damage dams Department of Environmental dioxide drought dumps Earth Earthlife Africa Eastern Cape electricity emissions Endangered Wildlife Trust environment Environmental Affairs epidemic Eskom farmers farming fish forest fuel Gauteng global greenhouse hectare Highveld human impact increase industrialists industry irrigation Johannesburg Karoo kilometres Kruger Park KwaZulu-Natal land Lesotho levels Limpopo Limpopo Province living metres million tons mining Mpumalanga National Park natural nuclear Organisation ozone Personal communication plants plastic population power stations Pretoria problem production programme rain recycling reduced region reserves river rural says smog soil South Africa southern Soweto species square kilometres sulphur tion trees urban urbanised Vaal Vaal Dam waste wetlands Wildlife Worldwatch Institute