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Human impact on the environment : ancient roots, current challenges
Title
Human impact on the environment : ancient roots, current challenges / edited by Judith E. Jacobsen and John Firor.
ISBN
0429037759
042969556X
0429715579
0429735588
9780429037757
9780429695568
9780429715570
9780429735585
0367007894
9780367007898
Publication
New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 10, 2019).
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Biographical / Historical Note
Judith E. Jacobsen is a writer, lecturer, and consultant on world population issues. John Firor is a senior scientist and director emeritus at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Summary
This book explores the way in which human culture and technology have altered the environment through time. The contributors, drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, history, physics and atmospheric science, explore the relationship between humans and the environment as an ongoing process, not just as a recent art
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Human impact on the environment. New York, NY : Routledge, 2018
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
From Small Groups to Large: The Impact of Hunting, Farming, and Cities
The Impact of Early People on the Environment: The Case of Large Mammal Extinctions
The Impact of Food Production: Short-Term Strategies and Long-Term Consequences
The Epidemiology of Civilization
The Industrial Era: New Societies, New Technologies, New Problems
The Revolution in the Family and the World We Have Made
Pollution and the Emergence of Industrial America
Exhaustibility of British Coal in Long-Run Perspective
The Environment Goes Global: Issues of the Late Twentieth Century
Global Climate Change
Global Water Resources: The Coming Crises
Tropical Forests and Human Society
Designing the Future: Coping with the Crises
Creating an International Process to Address Greenhouse Warming
Human Impacts
African Search for Solutions
Transitions to a Sustainable Society
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