Sustainability or Collapse?: An Integrated History And Future of People on Earth (Dahlem Workshop Reports, Band 96) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262033666 ISBN 13: 9780262033664

Verlag: MIT Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Human history, as written traditionally, leaves out the important ecological and climate context of historical events. But the capability to integrate the history of human beings with the natural history of the Earth now exists, and we are finding that human-environmental systems are intimately linked in ways we are only beginning to appreciate. In Sustainability or Collapse?, researchers from a range of scholarly disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future. The contributors focus on the human-environment interactions that have shaped historical forces since ancient times and discuss such key methodological issues as data quality. Topics highlighted include the political ecology of the Mayans; the effect of climate on the Roman Empire; the "revolutionary weather" of El Niño from 1788 to 1795; twentieth-century social, economic, and political forces in environmental change; scenarios for the future; and the accuracy of such past forecasts as The Limits to Growth.

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Will Steffen is Director of the Center for Resource and Environmental Studies and Director of the ANU Institute of Environment at the Australian National University and Chief Scientist at the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, Stockholm.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262033666
• ISBN 13: 9780262033664
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 495
• Herausgeber: Costanza Robert, Graumlich Lisa J., Steffen Will
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