The Science of global change : the impact of human activities on the environment / David A. Dunnette, editor, Robert J. O'Brien, editor.

"Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the American Chemical Society."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Global environmental chemistry -- Stratospheric ozone -- Acid deposition -- Tropospheric chemical reactivity and its consequences for clean and polluted air -- Dust in the environment -- Anthropogenic contaminants -- Air quality in Mexico City -- Global assessment of ambient urban air quality -- Potential effects of increased ultraviolet radiation on the productivity of the southern ocean -- Great lakes water quality --Persistent marine debris -- Assessing global river water quality --Changes in an estuarine ecosystem -- Pesticides and world food supply --Energy for food production and processing -- Global significance of biomethanogenesis -- Biogeochemical consequences of desertification --Long-term fates of declining forests -- Climatic future and lessons of the climatic past -- Climatic feedbacks in the global carbon cycle --Vegetation, the global carbon cycle, and global measures --Biogeochemistry of deforestation and biomass burning -- Integrating global environmental chemistry into secondary school curricula -- Education of environmental specialists and generalists in American univesities.