INTRODUCTION 1. Social Resiliency and Carbon Dioxide:Preliminary Remarks 2. The Challenge of World Climate Change PART I: INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND WEATHER-RELATED ACTIVITIES, PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES 1. Climate and Climate Impacts 2. International Climate Program Planning and Research 3. International Organizations and Climate Change 4. Food and Climate: Basic Issues and Some Policy Implications 5. Anthropogenic Climate Change: Assessing the Responsibility of Developed and Developing Countries 6. Global Climate, World Politics and National Security PART II: EXISTING AND ALTERNATIVE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW AND INSTITUTIONS: RESPONSES TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE PROBLEMS 7. International Strategies and Institutions for Coping with Climate Change, 8. Global Management of the Environment: Regional and Multilateral Initiatives 9. Unilateral Actions to Control Planned and Inadvertent Climate Modification: Options and Obstacles 10. The Atmosphere: Change, Politics and World Law - 11. A Resource Management Approach to Carbon Dioxide During the Century of Transition 12. The International Law and Politics of Acid Rain 13. Options for Public Control of Atmospheric Management PART III: APPRAISAL AND RECOMMENDATIONS 14. Global Climate Change and International Law and Institutions