This is a multidisciplinary collection of thirty-nine key articles
concerned with the human impact on the natural environment. It is
divided into six thematic parts, each introduced by the editor. It
is designed to be used in university courses on environmental
analysis and management, either on its own or in conjunction with
Andrew Goudie's standard text, "The Human Impact on the Natural
Environment" (fifth edition, 2000).
Environmental change directly attributable to human action dates
back at least 10,000 years, but has become increasingly significant
following urbanization, industrialization, agricultural
intensification, and the exponential growth in human population. It
is now a central concern not only of many scientific disciplines,
but of governments, business, international organizations, and the
public at large.
Deforestation has reduced the diversity of species. Local and
trans-national air and water pollution have damaged health and
agricultural productivity. Overfishing has reduced the stocks of
many species to below the level of, at best, short-term recovery.
Dams and river diversions have provided irrigation at the cost of
salinification and the downstream desiccation - including the
virtual loss of the Aral Sea. Fossil fuel omissions have
contributed to global warming, among whose likely consequences are
the desertification of many temperate regions and the loss of huge
areas of land to the sea. These are among the topics to which
scientists in this book address themselves.
The consequences of the human impact on the environment present
the planet's dominant species with perhaps its most intransigent
and complex problems. "The Human Impact Reader" is awide-ranging
and stimulating resource for the study and understanding of
contemporary environmental processes at local, regional and global
scales.
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