THE ENCYCLOPAEDIC DICTIONARY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE - Hardcover

Matthews, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340741090 ISBN 13: 9780340741092

Verlag: Routledge, 2001

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Book by Matthews John

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This volume covers changes affecting the Earth over geological, intermediate and short timescales, including pre-Quarternary, Quarternary, Holocene, historical and modern environmental chages. Recent climatic change is a major focus but other topics covered in detail relate to natural and human-induced changes to the lithosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and biosphere. Concepts, theories and issues relating to environmental change are included, as are the diverse sources of evidence of environmental change, the local, regional and global effects of environmental change from poles to the tropics and the approaches and techniques used for reconstructing, dating, monitoring, modelling and predicting change. This involves an interdisciplinary approach extending from the natural environmental sciences into relevant areas of physical, earth, biological, archaeological and social sciences. The dictionary emphasizes the science of environmental change but its social implications are not neglected. Entries range in level from short review articles of around 1000 words which provide an up-to-date introduction to major topics, to concise one or two-sentence definitions of terms likely to be encountered in this field.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0340741090
• ISBN 13: 9780340741092
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 736