U.S. Policy and the Global Environment: Memos to the President

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Forum Participants

A Global Environmental Agenda for the U.S.
Donald Kennedy and Roger W. Sant

Climate Change and its Consequences
F. Sherwood Rowland

The Energy-Climate Challenge
John P. Holdren

Controlling Emissions of Greenhouse Gases
David G. Victor

Feeding the World in the New Millennium
Per Pinstrup-Andersen

Global Water: Threats and Challenges Facing the United States
Peter H. Gleick

Environment and Health
Kirk R. Smith

Biodiversity, Ecosystem Change, and International Development
Walter V. Reid

Maintaining Diversity in Our Oceans
J. C. Ogden

Red Tides and Dead Zones: Eutrophication in the Marine Environment
Andrew R. Solow

Population and Consumption
Robert W. Kates

Environmental Scarcities and Civil Violence
Thomas Homer-Dixon

Global Environmental Governance
Eileen Claussen

The New Administration and Setting Environmental Priorities
Thomas C. Jorling

America's National Interests in Promoting a Transition Toward Sustainability
William C. Clark

Endnotes and Further Reading