"Committee on Global Change, National Research Council." Proceedings of the Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future, held on May 2-3, 1989, at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., and organized by the the National Research Council's Committee on Global Change. Includes bibliographical references.

Toward a global environmental policy / William D. Ruckelshaus -- Global change and our common future : the Benjamin Franklin Lecture / Gro Harlen Brundtland -- Global change and carrying capacity : implications for life on Earth / Paul R. Ehrlich [and others] -- The Earth system / Digby J. McLaren -- Mission to planet Earth revisited / Thomas F. Malone and Robert Corell -- Historical perspectives : climatic changes throughout the millenia / John E. Kutzbach -- Mathematical modeling of greenhouse warming : how much do we know? / J.D. Mahlman -- The Earth's fragile ozone shield / Susan Solomon -- Terrestrial ecosystems / Peter M. Vitousek -- Human dimensions of global environmental change / Roberta Balstad Miller -- The human causes of global environmental change / B.L. Turner II. What does global change mean for society? / Lester R. Brown -- Impacts of future sea level rise / James M. Broadus -- Threats to biological diversity as the Earth warms / Robert L. Peters -- Deforestation and its role in possible changes in the Brazilian Amazon / Eneas Salati [and others] -- Impacts of global change / Jose Goldemberg -- The global environment : a national security issue / Albert Gore, Jr. -- Implications for public policy : options for action / Martin W. Holdgate -- View from the North / Digby J. McLaren -- View from the South / Marc J. Dourojeanni -- Political leadership and the Brundtland Report : what are the implications for public policy? / Charles Caccia -- Global warming : is it real and should it be part of a global change program? / Stephen H. Schneider.