This book examines key issues relating to debates on environmental change and policy in the 1990s. Preface, Acknowledgements, Ideas and Concepts, Introduction, Sustainable Development, Global Issues, Change in the Physical Environment, Environmental Change: Lessons From the Past, The Changing Atmosphere and its Impact on Planet Earth, Forest and Woodlands and Deforestation, Marine Pollution, Change in Societies, Population and Environment, World Energy Picture, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering: New Environmental Issues, Environmental and Green Movements, Local Impacts and Reactions, Change in the Physical Environment, Acidification and Eutrophication, Pollution and Development, The Use and Abuse of Wetlands, Soil Erosion and Conversation, Desertification, Change in Societies, Transport: Maker and Breaker of Cities, Towards Sustainable Urban Development, Counter Urbanization and Environmental Quality, Must Tourism Destroy its Resource Base?, Possibilities, Perspective and Prospect, Index.