Editor: John Coote

Designer: Ross George

Cartography: Swanston Graphics Ltd

Published: 1991

Publisher: Wayland Publishers Ltd

Format: Hardback

Pages: 96

Measurement: 320mm X 220mm

Suitable: Primary / Junior Secondary Reference

Description:

Planet Earth is home to a rich variety of life, but all around the world our precious environment is in danger. Pollution, overpopulation, global warming and many other problems now threaten to upset or destroy the delicate environmental balance on which all plant and animal life depends

The ATLAS OF THE ENVIRONMENT looks at these issues in an exciting new way. It is a combined atlas and information book that provides an up-to-date description of the world's major environmental problems and points to ways in which they might be solved. Each of the books ten chapters examines one important issue and begins by placing it in its world context, usually by means of a large full-colour map. Then the rest of the chapter explains and illustrates the problem and possible solutions, providing in-depth information and many colour photographs and detailed maps and diagrams.