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Title Changing Environments
Author Dick Morris (Editor); Joanna R. Freeland (Editor); Steve Hinchliffe (Editor)
Binding Papeback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Condition New
Pages 352
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher John Wiley & Sons , Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Publication date pp. 344, Map (Col.)
Illustrated Yes
Bookseller's Inventory # 6255414
ISBN 9780470849996 / 0470849991
Weight 2.04 lbs (0.93 kg)
Dimensions 9.62 x 7.45 x 0.88 in (24.43 x 18.92 x 2.24 cm)
Category Science
Library of Congress subjects Nature - Effect of human beings on, Global environmental change
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003278152
Dewey Decimal Code 304.28
Quantity available 4

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From the publisher

Are we humans destroying the environments in which we live, or is environmental change inevitable and natural? How has the relationship between human societies and environments changed since pre-history? Will human population growth outpace the available resources of land and water? Is global warming and climate change already out of control? What can economic and political models tell us about international development? Changing Environments takes a broad, interdisciplinary approach to such questions, drawing on ideas from science, technology, social science and humanities to examine how and why environments change as a result of natural and human-mediated processes. It draws on examples from around the world, and includes consideration of:
* the scales of time and space over which changes in our environments occur
* the effects on environments that arise from human use of the resources of energy, land, water and the atmosphere
* the role of technology and economics in shaping human actions on our environments
* the use and limitations of different models for thinking about environmental change
The book is part of a series entitled Environment: Change, Contest and Response that forms a large part of an Open University course on environmental matters. The other books in the series are: Making Sense of Environmental Issues
Contesting Environments
Environmental responses

From the rear cover

Are we humans destroying the environments in which we live, or is environmental change inevitable and natural? How has the relationship between human societies and environments changed since pre-history? Will human population growth outpace the available resources of land and water? Is global warming and climate change already out of control? What can economic and political models tell us about international development? Changing Environments takes a broad, interdisciplinary approach to such questions, drawing on ideas from science, technology, social science and humanities to examine how and why environments change as a result of natural and human-mediated processes. It draws on examples from around the world, and includes consideration of:

the scales of time and space over which changes in our environments occur
the effects on environments that arise from human use of the resources of energy, land, water and the atmosphere
the role of technology and economics in shaping human actions on our environments
the use and limitations of different models for thinking about environmental change

The book is par t of a series entitled Environment: Change, Contest and Response that forms a large part of an Open University course on environmental matters. The other books in the series are: Understanding Environmental Issues
Contested Environments
Environmental responses

About the author

Dick Morris and Joanna R. Freeland are the authors of Changing Environments, published by Wiley.

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