Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks

Volume 1: A Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain

William C. Clark, Jill Jäger, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, and Nancy M. Dickson

2.1	Global Change
2.1.1	Geopolitical Context
2.1.2	Knowledge of the Earth System
2.1.3	Action on the Global Environment
2.1.4	The Perspective of This Book
2.2	Acid Rain
2.2.1	Introduction
2.2.2	Historical Context
2.2.3	Sources
2.2.4	Environmental Transformations
2.2.5	Consequences
2.2.6	Management Options
2.2.7	International Agreements
2.3	Stratospheric Ozone
2.3.1	Introduction
2.3.2	Historical Context
2.3.3	Sources
2.3.4	Environmental Transformations
2.3.5	Consequences
2.3.6	Management Options
2.3.7	International Agreements
2.4	Climate Change
2.4.1	Introduction
2.4.2	Historical Context
2.4.3	Sources
2.4.4	Environmental Transformations
2.4.5	Impacts
2.4.6	Management Options
2.4.7	International Agreements
2.5	Interactions
Appendix 2A	Acronyms
Appendix 2B	Chronology of the Acid Rain Issue Chronology of the Ozone-Depletion Issue Chronology of the Climate Change Issue Notes References
Table 2.1	Chronology of global environmental change
Table 2.2	Ozone chemistry in the stratosphere
Table 2.3	Trace gases involved in global environmental change
Figure 2.1	Scales of global change
Figure 2.2	Processes of global change
Figure 2.3	Human forcing of global change
Figure 2.4	International environmental agreements
Figure 2.5	Attention to global atmospheric issues
Figure 2.6	Emissions
Figure 2.7	Environmental loadings
Figure 2.8	Environmental change