The Climate Connection: Climate Change and Modern Human Evolution - Softcover

Hetherington, Renée

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521147239 ISBN 13: 9780521147231

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Analysis of climate change and human evolution, migration and behavioural change and implications for our future.

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Renée Hetherington obtained a BA in business and economics from Simon Fraser University in 1981; an MBA from the University of Western Ontario in 1985; and an interdisciplinary PhD in anthropology, biology, geography and geology from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, in 2002. She was awarded a Canadian National Science and Engineering Research doctoral fellowship for her work reconstructing the paleogeography and paleoenvironment of the Queen Charlotte Islands/Haida Gwaii. The Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council subsequently awarded her a postdoctoral fellowship for her research relating climate change to human evolution and adaptability over the last 135,000 years. She has been co-leader of the United Nations International Geological Correlation Program project 526, 'Risks, Resources, and Record of the Past on the Continental Shelf'. She is CFO and director of RITM Corp., a natural resource and management consulting company. She ran for office as a Member of the Canadian Parliament in 2011 and is currently member of Shadow Caucus with the Federal Liberal Party of Canada. She is the author of Living in a Dangerous Climate (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521147239
• ISBN 13: 9780521147231
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 458
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