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Global environmental change is a subject of major scientific and political importance, and of rising media attention. But what do processes such as desertification, acidification and global warming involve? There is a need for a clear, well-integrated account by the scientists themselves of how these processes are altering the earth's natural environments. In "The Changing Global Environment" leading physical geographers provide distilled and up-to-date summaries of research in their own field - themes such as rainforest destruction and remote sensing by satellites. This is not a collection of unconnected research papers, but an integrated text. Taken as a whole, the book is distinguished by its concerns for environmental variations across space and through time, for human-environment interactions and for an awareness that the world is made up of real places and regions. It should be of interest to students in departments of geography, geoscience and environmental studies taking courses in global environmental change, advanced physical geography, climatic change and human ecology.

Table of Contents:
Environmental change - natural and cultural, Neil Roberts; remote sensing and the assessment of environmental change, Roy Haines-Young; palaeoclimates and future greenhouse warming, Alayne Street-Perrott and Neil Roberts; historical records and recent climate change, Mike Hulme; numerical modelling of global climates, Ann Henderson-Sellers; global warming and periglacial landscapes, Eduard Koster; ice volumes and climate change, David Sugden and Nick Hulton; sea-level response to climate, Michael Tooley; island environments - an uncertain future?, Tom Spencer; atmospheric pollution and acidification, Richard Battarbee; human impact on estuarine ecosystems - an historical perspective, Grace Brush; reconstructing the history of soil erosion, John Dearing; case-study - China's Yellow River and loess lands, Edward Derbyshire and Jingtai Wang; the impact of large dams and river basin schemes, Geoff Petts; Savannah landscapes and global environmental change, Philip Stott; tropical moist forests - conservation or transformation?, Peter Furley; land degredation in the tropics, Ian Douglas; deforestation and environmental change in the Himalaya, Martin Haigh; dryland degredation, Andrew Goudie; the desert as a biogeographical resource - the example of the central and southern Sahara, Erhard Schulz.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781557862716
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell Publishers
  • Height: 246 mm
  • Width: 171 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1557862710
  • Publisher Date: 28 Oct 1993
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English


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