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It highlights the linkages between environmental well-being , vulnerability and poverty ; records recent findings on the value of ecosystem services ; and describes new research findings on polar and ocean changes that may prove a turning point in the urgency of our awareness and response to global change . This volume , an epistolary work which , like Cooper 's , includes observations on travels in the Alps and in Italy , was published as " by the author of ' Hope Leslie , ' ' The Poor Rich Man and the Rich Poor Man , ' ' Live and Let Live , ' etc. " Perhaps Angelica 's taste in fiction , or reading tastes generally , grew more moralistic in mid-century . Fortress World scenario : as socioeconomic and environmental stresses mount , the world descends toward fragmentation , extreme inequality and widespread conflict ; and Great Transitions scenario : a new development paradigm emerges in response to the challenge of sustainability , distinguished by pluralism , planetary solidarity , and new values and institutions . Extreme weather events and new research and data were so dramatic that the year may prove a turning point in the urgency of our awareness and response . It is one of five travel books Cooper wrote during the 1830 's , when , disillusioned at the reception of several novels with European settings , he stopped writing fiction for several years . The cause of Italian unity evoked a strong , sympathetic response in the Anglo-American literary community . The effect was so realistic for the time that many readers took it for a genuine autobiography rather than fiction . " Published by Henry Colburn , who would become one of the most prolific fiction publishers in London , this novel is in the fashionable " three-decker " format , and labels indicate it was an ex-library copy from one of the equally fashionable " circulating libraries . It is not synonymous with disasters , even though such events generate more public awareness and response , and media interest ( see Box 3.2 ) . Examples are : imposition of relatively lower tax rates on agricultural land uses ( Barnes and de Jager 1995 ) ; subsidies to inputs ; government intervention in marketing ; preferential credit arrangements ; relief on taxes and duties ; and high spending on research , extension , development and marketing ( Mogaka and others 2001 ) . Angelica Singleton was typical of her period in her liking for fiction , especially by women writers .