The Anthropocene (eBook)

101 Questions and Answers for Understanding the Human Impact on the Global Environment

B. L. Turner II (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
Agenda Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78821-513-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The Anthropocene is an authoritative desk-top reference work for students of geography, the environment and sustainability. Through a series of 101 interconnected questions and answers spanning ten thematic sections, the book provides a comprehensive survey of humankind's impact on the global environment from the Late Stone Age to the present day.Unrivalled in scope, the book distills the latest research findings and scholarship across a remarkable range of topics concerning the evolving human environment relationship. These include the broad history of human-induced changes in the environmental conditions of the planet; the major human impacts on the Earth and their consequences; and the different causes and rationales applied to understanding these environmental changes. All questions are answered succinctly and rigorously and draw on a wealth of contemporary evidence and scientific theories. The book is colour illustrated throughout, answers are fully cross-referenced and further readings are suggested for those wishing to delve deeper. For anyone seeking to understand the human-induced changes to our planet and the challenges these pose for sustainability, this book is an invaluable resource. It provides a masterly presentation of the human footprint on the Earth system.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.11.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • Atmosphere • Biomes • biosphere • Climate • climate change • deforestation • Desertification • earth system • Ecosystems • Environmental change • global warming • human-environment relationship • Hydrosphere • land use • Lithosphere • Mass extinction • Ozone layer • sustainability • urbanization
• ISBN-10: 1-78821-513-3 / 1788215133
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78821-513-8 / 9781788215138