Encyclopedia of Environmental Change

Three Volume Set

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, Nature, Environment, Environmental Conservation & Protection
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Author: ISBN: 9781473928190
Publisher: SAGE Publications Publication: December 13, 2013
Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9781473928190
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication: December 13, 2013
Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd
Language: English

Accessibly written by a team of international authors, the Encyclopedia of Environmental Change provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change.  This three-volume set illustrates and examines topics within this dynamic and rapidly changing interdisciplinary field.  The encyclopedia includes all of the following aspects of environmental change:

  • Diverse evidence of environmental change, including climate change and changes on land and in the oceans

  • Underlying natural and anthropogenic causes and mechanisms

  • Wide-ranging local, regional and global impacts from the polar regions to the tropics

  • Responses of geo-ecosystems and human-environmental systems in the face of past, present and future environmental change

  • Approaches, methodologies and techniques used for reconstructing, dating, monitoring, modelling, projecting and predicting change

  • Social, economic and political dimensions of environmental issues, environmental conservation and management and environmental policy

 

Over 4,000 entries explore the following key themes and more:

  • Conservation
  • Demographic change
  • Environmental management
  • Environmental policy
  • Environmental security
  • Food security
  • Glaciation
  • Green Revolution
  • Human impact on environment
  • Industrialization
  • Landuse change
  • Military impacts on environment
  • Mining and mining impacts
  • Nuclear energy
  • Pollution
  • Renewable resources
  • Solar energy
  • Sustainability
  • Tourism
  • Trade
  • Water resources
  • Water security
  • Wildlife conservation

The comprehensive coverage of terminology includes layers of entries ranging from one-line definitions to short essays, making this an invaluable companion for any student of physical geography, environmental geography or environmental sciences.

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Accessibly written by a team of international authors, the Encyclopedia of Environmental Change provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change.  This three-volume set illustrates and examines topics within this dynamic and rapidly changing interdisciplinary field.  The encyclopedia includes all of the following aspects of environmental change:

 

Over 4,000 entries explore the following key themes and more:

The comprehensive coverage of terminology includes layers of entries ranging from one-line definitions to short essays, making this an invaluable companion for any student of physical geography, environmental geography or environmental sciences.

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