Environment 04/05 / editor, John L. Allen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How many planets? A survey of the global environment -- Forget nature. Even Eden is engineered / Andrew C. Revkin -- Crimes of (a) global nature / Lisa Mastny, Hilary French -- Population control today--and tomorrow? / Jacqueline R. Kasun -- Population and consumption : what we know, what we need to know / Robert W. Kates -- An economy for the earth / Lester R. Brown -- The eco-economic revolution : getting the market in sync with nature / Lester R. Brown -- Poverty and environmental degradation : challenges within the global economy / Akin L. Mabogunje.

Where the sidewalks end / Molly O'Meara Sheehan -- Energy : a brighter future? -- Beyond oil : the future of energy / Fred Guteri, Adam Piore, William Underhill -- Renewable energy : a viable choice / Antonia V. Herzog, Timothy E. Lipman, Jennifer L. Edwards, Daniel M. Kammen -- Fossil fuels and energy independence / B. Samuel Tanenbaum -- Power struggle : California's engineered energy crisis and the potential of public power / Harvey Wasserman -- What is nature worth? / Edward O. Wilson -- Fragile cornucopia : assessing the status of U.S. biodiversity / Bruce A. Stein.

Invasive species : pathogens of globalization / Christopher Bright -- Where have all the farmers gone? / Brian Halweil -- All the wild rivers / Curtis Runyan -- Growing more food with less water / Sandra Postel -- Oceans are on the critical list / Anne Platt McGinn -- Feeling the heat : the life in the greenhouse / Michael D. Lemonick -- Three pollutants and an emission / Dallas Burtraw -- Groundwater shock : the polluting of the world's major freshwater stores / Payal Sampat -- Water quality : the issues / Mary H. Cooper.

Statehouse and greenhouse : the states are taking the lead on climate change / Barry G. Rabe.