Changing Environments

By Dick Morris, Joanna Freeland, Steve Hinchliffe et al.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Earth is continually changing in both its natural and social senses. Global environmental change looks at physical and biological processes and social processes across a range of spatial and temporal scales. "Changing Environments" examines how and why environments change as a result of natural and human-mediated processes and why some changes are becoming significant. It includes consideration of; the time and spatial scales of change that are relevant to our interaction with environments; the effects on environments that arise from human use of resources of energy, land, water and the atmosphere; the role of technology and economics in shaping human actions on our environments; and the use and limitations of quantitative models for analysing environmental change.

Produktdetails

• OU-Wiley Environment Series
• Verlag: WILEY & SONS
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 189mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 935g
• ISBN-13: 9780470849996
• ISBN-10: 0470849991
• Artikelnr.: 11448307

Autorenporträt

D. Morris, Open University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Series Preface. Introduction (Dick Morris). Dynamic Earth: processes of
change (Dick Morris and Charles Turner). Dynamic Earth: human impacts (Alan
Reddish). Population change and environmental change (Michael Drake and
Joanna Freeland). Changing land (Dick Morris). Water (Mark Brandon and
Sandy Smith). Dynamic atmosphere: changing climate and air quality (Roger
Blackmore and Rod Barratt). Uneven development, globalization and
environmental change (Noel Castree). Conclusion: General conclusions:
thinking about environmental change (Dick Morris). Acknowledgements. Index.