"This book has been published in cooperation with the Commission on Critical Environmental Situations and Regions, the International Geographical Union"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Critical environmental regions: concepts, distinctions, and issues / Roger E. Kasperson ... [et al.] -- Amazonia / Nigel J.H. Smith ... [et al.] -- The Aral Sea basin / Nikita F. Glazovsky -- The Nepal middle mountains / N.S. Jodha -- The Ukambani region of Kenya / Dianne Rocheleau, Patricia Benjamin, and Alex Diang'a -- The Llano Estacado of the American Southern High Plains / Elizabeth Brooks and Jacque Emel -- The Basin of Mexico / Adrián Guillermo Aguilar ... [et al.] -- The North Sea / Julie Argent and Timothy O'Riordan -- The Ordos Plateau of China / Hong Jiang ... [et al.] -- The eastern Sundaland region of South-East Asia / Lesley Potter, Harold Brookfield, and Yvonne Byron -- Comparisons and conclusions / B.L. Turner II ... [et al.]