Human Impact on the Earth
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 1st Edition., 8/21/2008
EAN 9780521558471, ISBN10: 0521558476
Paperback, 264 pages, 24.6 x 18.8 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
At a level accessible to the educated lay reader, this book describes the changes human activities have produced in the global environment from 300 years ago to the present day. It offers a comprehensive and authoritative inventory of human impact in its varied forms - on the oceans, atmosphere, and climate - ranging from long-standing alterations to new and surprising ones that have emerged in recent years, from environmental disasters to success stories of environmental management, and false alarms. This balanced, non-polemical survey will interest all those concerned about the environment and the likely fate of the planet.
Preface
1. The Earth transformed by human action
2. Changes in population and society
3. The land
4. Biota
5. Water
6. Chemical flows
7. Oceans, atmosphere, climate
8. Three centuries that shook the Earth
References
Index.