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Encyclopedia of Environmental Change
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Accessibly written by a team of international authors, the Encyclopedia of Environmental Change provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change. This three-volume set illustrates and examines topics within this dynamic and rapidly changing interdisciplinary field. The encyclopedia includes all of the following aspects of environmental change: * Diverse evidence of environmental change, including climate change and changes on land and in the oceans * Underlying natural and anthropogenic causes and mechanisms * Wide-ranging local,...
Accessibly written by a team of international authors, the Encyclopedia of Environmental Change provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change. This three-volume set illustrates and examines topics within this dynamic and rapidly changing interdisciplinary field. The encyclopedia includes all of the following aspects of environmental change: * Diverse evidence of environmental change, including climate change and changes on land and in the oceans * Underlying natural and anthropogenic causes and mechanisms * Wide-ranging local, regional and global impacts from the polar regions to the tropics * Responses of geo-ecosystems and human-environmental systems in the face of past, present and future environmental change * Approaches, methodologies and techniques used for reconstructing, dating, monitoring, modelling, projecting and predicting change * Social, economic and political dimensions of environmental issues, environmental conservation and management and environmental policy Over 4,000 entries explore the following key themes and more: * Conservation * Demographic change * Environmental management * Environmental policy * Environmental security * Food security * Glaciation * Green Revolution * Human impact on environment * Industrialization * Landuse change * Military impacts on environment * Mining and mining impacts * Nuclear energy * Pollution * Renewable resources * Solar energy * Sustainability * Tourism * Trade * Water resources * Water security * Wildlife conservation The comprehensive coverage of terminology includes layers of entries ranging from one-line definitions to short essays, making this an invaluable companion for any student of physical geography, environmental geography or environmental sciences.
