Foreword : the reality of time and transformation / Robert McC. Adams
The great transformation / Robert W. Kates, B.L. Turner, II, William C. Clark
Changes in population and society. Long-term population change / Thomas M. Whitmore ... [et al.]
Technological change / Daniel R. Headrick
Institutions, social organization, and cultural values / John W. Bennett, Kenneth A. Dahlberg
The increasing separation of production and consumption / Michael Chisholm
Urbanization / Brian J.L. Berry
Awareness of human impacts : changing attitudes and emphases / David Lowenthal
Transformations of the global environment. Long-term environmental change / Patricia F. McDowell, Thompson Webb, III, Patrick J. Bartlein
Land transformation / John F. Richards
Forests / Michael Williams
Soils / Boris G. Rozanov, Viktor Targulian, D.S. Orlov
Sediment transfer and siltation / Ian Douglas.
(cont.) Use and transformation of terrestrial water systems / Mark I. L'vovich ... [et al.]
Water quality and flows / Harry E. Schwarz ... [et al.]
The coastal zone / H. Jesse Walker
Atmospheric trace constituents / T.E. Graedel, P.J. Crutzen
Marine environment / Timothy D. Jickells, Roy Carpenter, Peter S. Liss
Climate / Jill Jäger, Roger G. Barry
Terrestrial fauna / Robert L. Peters, Thomas E. Lovejoy
Marine biota / Ray Hilborn
Flora / Ghillean T. Prance
Carbon / R.A. Houghton, David L. Skole
Sulfur / Rudolf B. Husar, Janja Djukic Husar
Nitrogen and phosphorus / Vaclav Smil
Trace pollutants / Halina Szejnwald Brown, Roger E. Kasperson, Susan Swedis Raymond
The ionizing radiations / Merril Eisenbud
Regional studies of transformation. The Huang-Huai-Hai Plain / Zuo Dakang, Zhang Peiyuan
Amazonia / Eneas Salati ... [et al.]
Borneo and the Malay Peninsula / Harold Brookfield ... [et al.]
Caucasia / Yu P. Badenkov ... [et al.].
(cont.) East African Highlands / Leonard Berry, Laurence A. Lewis, Cara Williams
The Russian Plain / E.B. Alayev, Yu P. Badenkov, N.A. Karavaeva
The United States Great Plains / William E. Riebsame
The Basin of Mexico / Exequiel Ezcurra
Nigeria / Reuben K. Udo ... [et al.]
Sweden / Torsten Hägerstrand, Ulrik Lohm
The Hudson-Raritan Basin / Joel A. Tarr, Robert U. Ayres
Switzerland / Christian Pfister, Paul Messerli
Understanding transformations. The realm of meaning : the inadequacy of human-nature theory and the view of mass consumption / Robert D. Sack
The realm of social relations : production, reproduction, and gender in environmental transformations / Carolyn Merchant
The realm of cultural-human ecology : adaptation and change in historical perspective / Karl W. Butzer.