Earth from Above
New York : Abrams, 2005.
Format: Book
Edition: Third edition.
Description: 435 pages : color illustrations ; 37 cm
Both low- and high-level aerial photographs document places around the world and form the starting point for discussions of ecology, sustainable development, and the current state of the world.
Contents:
Building an eco-economy / Lester Brown -- World population and the environment / Hervé Le Bras -- Urban landscapes, landscapes of urbanism / Jean-Robert Pitte -- Farmers of the world : the price of our future / Laurence Roudart, Marcel Mazoyer -- Water : humanity's heritage / Marie-France Dupuis-Tate, Bernard Fischesser -- Biodiversity : a question of survival / Jean-Marie Pelt -- Seas and oceans : red alert / Richard Ellis -- Climate change : doubts and certainties / Anne Juillet-Leclerc -- Rethinking the world's energy / Christopher Flavin, Janet L. Sawin -- Sustainable development / Christian Brodhag -- Microcredit and the future of poverty / Jacques Attali -- Antarctica : the continent of hope / Lucia Simion.
Subjects:
Arthus-Bertrand, Yann.
Aerial photography in ecology.
Global environmental change.
Global environmental change -- Pictorial works.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Pictorial works.
Conservation of natural resources.
Sustainable development.
Human geography.
Earth (Planet) -- Pictorial works.
Arthus-Bertrand, Yann.
Aerial photography in ecology.
Global environmental change.
Global environmental change -- Pictorial works.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Pictorial works.
Conservation of natural resources.
Sustainable development.
Human geography.
Earth (Planet) -- Pictorial works.
ISBN:
081095947X (hardcover)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
ART Photographers Arthus-Bertrand | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Nonfiction | In |
Some pages on folded leaves, unfold to 37 x 54 cm.
"The captions for the photographs in this 2005 edition have been edited and updated by Isabelle Delannoy, Natalie Chahine, and Marie Renault. Translated from the French La terre vue du ciel by David Baker, Simon Jones, and David H. Wilson"--Title page verso.
Includes indexes.
"The captions for the photographs in this 2005 edition have been edited and updated by Isabelle Delannoy, Natalie Chahine, and Marie Renault. Translated from the French La terre vue du ciel by David Baker, Simon Jones, and David H. Wilson"--Title page verso.
Includes indexes.