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Mangrove Ecosystems: Function and Management

Mangrove Ecosystems: Function and Management

Lacerda, Luiz Drude de
Linneweber, Volker

Hardcover

BiologyEnvironmental StudiesGeography

ISBN10: 3540422080
ISBN13: 9783540422082
Publisher: Springer
Published: Mar 26 2002
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.52
Language: English
Protection of the environment has nowadays become a major challenge and a condi- tion for survival of future human generations and life on Earth in general. Yet it is still far too much of a dream or hope rather than a reality in the policy of our societies. Presently we are experiencing an unprecedented exponential growth of demography combined with a race for profit, resulting in excessive consumption particularly of en- ergy, and a serious impact on the world ecosystems. Various types of pollutants and emerging new diseases not only disrupt the normal course of life, but also above this some of the atmospheric pollutants are most likely involved in the changing climate. We fear and literally shiver at the thought that the changing climate would ultimately disrupt the fragile thermodynamic equilibrium between the atmosphere and the oceans. Are we insensitive to these facts to the point of pushing our descendants, some genera- tions ahead, into a new glacial period after a first period of warming up, at least, in northern Europe, like the one that took place 13 to 14 millennia ago? Surely the planet's nature is not prepared to be dominated by man and will go its way, whether humanity will be alive or dead.

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