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The Science of global change : the impact of human activities on the environment / 6 6 David A. Dunnette, editor, Robert J. O'Brien, editor. - - - xi, 498 p. : ill. 24 cm. - - - - - . - ACS symposium series 483 . - 0 . - . - ACS symposium series 0 483 .

Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Global environmental chemistry -- Stratospheric ozone -- Acid deposition -- Tropospheric chemical reactivity and its consequences for clean and polluted air -- Dust in the environment -- Anthropogenic contaminants -- Air quality in Mexico City -- Global assessment of ambient urban air quality -- Potential effects of increased ultraviolet radiation on the productivity of the southern ocean -- Great lakes water quality -- Persistent marine debris -- Assessing global river water quality -- Changes in an estuarine ecosystem -- Pesticides and world food supply -- Energy for food production and processing -- Global significance of biomethanogenesis -- Biogeochemical consequences of desertification -- Long-term fates of declining forests -- Climatic future and lessons of the climatic past -- Climatic feedbacks in the global carbon cycle -- Vegetation, the global carbon cycle, and global measures -- Biogeochemistry of deforestation and biomass burning -- Integrating global environmental chemistry into secondary school curricula -- Education of environmental specialists and generalists in American universities.

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