Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frankenfood Meets The Greens: The Controversy over Genetically Altered Crops -- The New Scientific Horizon -- Unexpected Controversy -- The Terminators and the Lordly Monarchs -- Fighting a Netwar: The Legacy of Mad Cows -- Productive Cows and Frankenfish: Two Miniatures of the Controversy -- The Wall Street Waffle -- Precautionary Principle Versus Risk Benefit Ratio: Why Public Relations Is Not the Only Problem -- The Human Family Grows: Population as a Problem -- What Happened? The Demographic Transition -- Environmental Impacts of Human Population Growth -- China and India -- U.N. Conferences -- U.S. Position on Population Policies -- Predictions and Solutions -- Questions for Reflection -- Life In The Greenhouse: The Effects of Global Warming -- On Not Really Knowing -- Jim Hansen Blows the Whistle -- More Evidence of Warming -- Predictions and Variables -- What's Going on at the Poles? -- Missing Warming, Missing Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sinks -- Energy -- Global Geopolitics: The U.N. Conferences -- The Extended Family: The Saga of the Great Apes -- Bushmeat -- The Quarry in the Great Bushmeat Hunt -- Apes in the Wild: The Preservation of Endangered Ecosystems -- Apes in the Laboratory: Utilitarian Benefits and Troubling Claims of Right -- Apes in Court: Should They Have the Rights of Persons? -- Ecotourism and Respect -- A Question Of Responsibility: The Legacy of Bhopal -- Desperately Seeking Warren Anderson -- The Corporation in India -- The Explosion: Accounts and Responsibilities -- The Varieties of Multinational Corporate Activity -- The Industry's "Never Again" -- The Silence Of The Birds: Rachel Carson and the Pesticides -- The Wake-Up Book -- Rachel Carson, Naturalist and Prophet -- The Reaction to the Book -- The Trouble with DDT -- National Response: Regulation -- The Update on Pesticides -- Alternatives to Pesticides -- The Loss Of An Ally: The Emergence of Antibiotic Resistance -- Thinking Like an Ecosystem -- The Slow Destruction of an Ecosystem -- Down on the Pharm -- Plague Years: AIDS, Tuberculosis, and the Future of Disease -- The Search for Bears -- Skunked: Crisis in the New England Fisheries -- Too Many Boats Chasing Too Few Fish -- The Captains Courageous: Fishing in New England -- Present and Future -- To Reclaim A Legacy: The Tallest Trees in America -- The Owl and His Trees -- The Terms of the Act -- The Oldest Trees -- Business and the Temptation to Overharvest -- Pacific Lumber: A Short History and Apologia -- The Hostile Takeover -- The Rationale of Destruction -- Can We Reclaim the Redwoods for Our Own? -- The Company's Position -- The Role of Government -- Toward a Forest Future -- Legacy Of War: The Nuclear Weapons Cleanup -- The Tanks of Menace -- Scientists Experimenting for the Good of the Nation -- By-Products of Weaponry -- The Extent of the Problem: Hanford, Rocky Flats, and Savannah -- The Rocky Flats Trial -- Epilogue: Projections of Despair and Hope.

This is the only environmental casebook of its kind, presenting current and classic cases with the detail required for readers to experience serious and complex issues. The authors present cases of immediate interest to readers in a balanced and impartial manner.