Umfang:
1 online resource (xxi, 263 p.)
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ill
ISBN:
1139165267
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9781139165266
Inhalt:
"This book provides a balanced basis for understanding and exploring the scientific issues underlying global change for advanced undergraduates in geography, environmental, earth, biological and ecological sciences. By providing a non-specialist introduction to models in environmental change research and to the study of past environmental changes, it seeks to draw a wider group of students into the field."--BOOK JACKET
Inhalt:
Environmental Change: Key Issues and Alternative Approaches describes and explains the significance of past and contemporary environmental and climatic change. It outlines the conceptual framework for studies of environmental change by posing key questions and presenting the results of relevant research. It provides a non-specialist introduction to models in environmental change research and to the study of past environmental changes. Covering the last 400 000 years, special emphasis is placed on past periods of rapid warming, the nature of climatic variability over the last 1000 years and the dramatic and accelerating changes in the Earth system heralded by the industrial revolution. The book is extensively referenced and illustrated. This book provides a balanced, non-specialist basis for understanding and exploring the scientific issues underlying global change for advanced undergraduates in geography, environmental, earth, biological and ecological sciences
Inhalt:
1. Defining and exploring the key questions -- 2. An introduction to models and modelling -- 3. The Palaeo-record : approaches, timeframes and chronology -- 4. The Palaeo-record : archives, proxies and calibration -- 5. Glacial and interglacial worlds -- 6. The transition from the last glacial maximum to the Holocene -- 7. The Holocene -- 8. The Anthropocene -- a changing atmosphere -- 9. The Anthropocene -- changing land -- 10. The Anthropocene : changing aquatic environments and ecosystems -- 11. Changing biodiversity -- 12. Detection and attribution -- 13. Future global mean temperatures and sea-level -- 14. From the global to the specific -- 15. Impacts and vulnerability -- 16. Sceptics, responses and partial answers
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-345) and index. - Description based on print version record
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780521829366
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780521536332
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521829366
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139165266
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