Note: Global Change - The IGBP Series -- Challenges of a Changing Earth -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I Opening -- Chapter 1 Opening Address -- Chapter 2 Challenges of a Changing Earth -- Part II Achievements and Challenges -- Part IIa Food, Land, Water, and Oceans -- Chapter 3 Toward Integrated Land-Change Science: Advances in 1.5 Decades of Sustained International Research on Land-Use and Land-Cover Change -- Chapter 4 Climate Variability and Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics: Implications for Sustainability -- Chapter 5 Food in the 21st Century: Global Climate of Disparities -- Chapter 6 Equity Dimensions of Dam-Based Water Resources Development: Winners and Losers -- Part IIb Out of Breath: Air Quality in the 21st Century -- Chapter 7 Atmospheric Chemistry in the "Anthropocene -- Chapter 8 Fires, Haze and Acid Rain: The Social and Political Framework of Air Pollution in ASEAN and Asia -- Part IIc Managing Planetary Metabolism? The Global Carbon Cycle -- Chapter 9 Carbon and the Science-Policy Nexus: The Kyoto Challenge -- Chapter 10 Industry Response to the CO2 Challenge -- Part IId Summary: Global Change and the Challenge for the Future -- Chapter 11 Global Change and the Challenge for the Future -- Part III Advances in Understanding -- Part IIIa Global Biogeochemistry: Understanding the Metabolic System of the Planet -- Chapter 12 Ocean Biogeochemistry: A Sea of Change -- Chapter 13 The Past, Present and Future of Carbon on Land -- Chapter 14 Can New Institutions Solve Atmospheric Problems? Confronting Acid Rain, Ozone Depletion and Climate Change -- Part IIIb Land-Ocean Interactions: Regional-Global Linkages -- Chapter 15 Emissions from the Oceans to the Atmosphere, Deposition from the Atmosphere to the Oceans and the Interactions Between Them -- Chapter 16 The Impact of Dams on Fisheries: Case of the Three Gorges Dam. , Chapter 17 Global Change in the Coastal Zone: The Case of Southeast Asia -- Part IIIc The Climate System: Prediction, Change and Variability -- Chapter 18 Climate Change Fore and Aft: Where on Earth Are We Going? -- Chapter 19 Climate Change - Past, Present and Future: A Personal Perspective -- Chapter 20 The Changing Cryosphere: Impacts of Global Warming in the High Latitudes -- Chapter 21 The Coupled Climate System: Variability and Predictability -- Part IIId Hot Spots of Land-Use Change and the Climate System: A Regional or Global Concern? -- Chapter 22 Hot Spots of Land-Use Change and the Climate System: A Regional or Global Concern? -- Chapter 23 Africa: Greening of the Sahara -- Chapter 24 The Role of Large-Scale Vegetation and Land Use in the Water Cycle and Climate in Monsoon Asia -- Chapter 25 Can Human-Induced Land-Cover Change Modify the Monsoon System? -- Chapter 26 The Amazon Basin and Land-Cover Change: A Future in the Balance? -- Part IV Looking to the Future -- Part IVa Simulating and Observing the Earth System -- Chapter 27 Virtual Realities of the Past, Present and Future -- Chapter 28 Coping with Earth System Complexity and Irregularity -- Chapter 29 Simulating and Observing the Earth System: Summary -- Part IVb Does the Earth System Need Biodiversity? -- Chapter 30 Marine Biodiversity: Why We Need It in Earth System Science -- Chapter 31 Does Biodiversity Matter to Terrestrial Ecosystem Processes and Services? -- Chapter 32 Biodiversity Loss and the Maintenance of Our Life-Support System -- Part IVc Can Technology Spare the Planet? -- Chapter 33 Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert - Or the Great Restoration of Nature: Why and How -- Chapter 34 Industrial Transformation: Exploring System Change in Production and Consumption -- Chapter 35 Will Technology Spare the Planet? -- Part IVd Towards Global Sustainability. , Chapter 36 Challenges and Road Blocks for Local and Global Sustainability -- Chapter 37 Research Systems for a Transition Toward Sustainability -- Chapter 38 Summary: Towards Global Sustainability -- Part IVe Closing Session -- Chapter 39 Closing Address -- Chapter 40 The Amsterdam Declaration on Global Change -- Index.