Encyclopedia of Environmental Change
Three Volume Set
Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, Nature, Environment, Environmental Conservation & Protection
| Author: | ISBN: | 9781473928190 | |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications | Publication: | December 13, 2013 |
| Imprint: | SAGE Publications Ltd | Language: | English |
| Author: | |
| ISBN: | 9781473928190 |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Publication: | December 13, 2013 |
| Imprint: | SAGE Publications Ltd |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
