Global environmental change

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This new edition of Global Environmental Change provides a chronological review of the change in the Earth's environment during the last two centuries. The book is written for students of geography & environmental science at undergraduate level.

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Title Statements

Full title :Global environmental change / A.M. Mannion.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1997.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Longman
Place of Publication:Harlow
Language:eng
Publication Date:1997.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (387 pages) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781317889403, 1317889401, 9781317889397, 1317889398, 9781315842615, 1315842610
oclc:ocn648575947
LC Classification:GF75
Dewey Decimal:304.2

Ch. 1. Nature, culture and environmental change -- Ch. 2. Quaternary geology and climatic change -- Ch. 3. Environmental change in the late- and post-glacial periods -- Ch. 4. Prehistoric communities as agents of environmental change -- Ch. 5. Environmental change in the historic period -- Ch. 6. Environmental change due to post-1700 industrialisation -- Ch. 7. The environmental impact of agriculture in the developed world -- Ch. 8. The environmental impact of agriculture in the developing world -- Ch. 9. Other agents of change: forestry, recreation and tourism, biotechnology -- Ch. 10. Conclusion and prospect.

Subjects

Changement global (Environnement) Geschichte Global environmental change Histoire History Homme -- Influence sur la nature Influence de l'homme sur la nature Nature -- Effect of human beings on Paléoécologie Paleoecology Umweltveränderung