The career of Harrison Brown includes major contributions in the physical sciences, global resource problems, and international cooperation are related in essays by his colleagues, each of whom shares with Brown a prominent place in these disciplines.

Also of Interest -- Foreword -- Earth, Planets, and Cosmos -- Introduction -- The Early Years: Chicago and Pasadena -- Harrison Brown and the Astronomers -- The Abundances of the Elements and Some Reflections on the Cosmogony of the Solar System -- Evidence for Ring Systems Orbiting Earth in the Geologic Past -- Dimensions of the Human Predicament: Population, Resources, and Environment -- Introduction -- Harrison Brown's Role in the Manhattan Project -- Burning the Rocks Forty Years Later -- Energy and the Human Predicament -- Soil Dynamics and Sustainable Carrying Capacity of Earth -- Speculating on the Global Resource Future -- International Cooperation and the Human Future -- Introduction -- The Cooperative Imperative in Science and Technology -- Science, Technology, and Endogenous Development: Some Notes on the Objectives and the Possibilities -- Toward Institutions of Unity for the Global Commons -- International Collaborative Research: The Experience of the Resource Systems Institute

Kirk R. Smith is research associate at the East-West Center's Resource Systems Institute.

Fereidun Fesharaki is energy program leader at the Resource Systems Institute of the East-West Center.

John P. Holdren is professor of energy and resources at the University of California, Berkeley.