At head of title: WWF. Title on jacket: World Wildlife Fund atlas of the environment. "Simultaneously published in Great Britain by Random Century Group Ltd."--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192).

Major biomes, climatic regions and land use.--Human numbers.--The urban revolution.--Food production and consumption.--Drinking water and sanitation.--Health.--The education gap.--GNP and the debt squeeze.--Industrialization and development.--Indigenous people and refugees.--Deserts and desertification.--Freshwater: abundance and scarcity.--Freshwater pollution.--Tropical forest destruction.--The tropical timber trade.--The fuelwood crisis.--Damaged watersheds.--Temperate forests under threat.--Acid rain.--Urban air pollution.--The greenhouse effect.--The ozone layer.--Toxic and hazardous wastes.--The spread of agrochemicals.--Natural and man-made disasters.--Fossil fuel resources.--Nuclear energy.--Renewable energy resources.--Biological diversity and genetic resources.--Areas of endemism.--Protected areas and national parks.--Major conservation efforts.--Wildlife trade.--Migration.--The world's wetlands.--The world's fisheries.--Whales and whaling.--Mangroves, coral reefs and seagrasses.--Mineral resources of the sea.--Pollution of the seas.--The Arctic.--Antarctica.