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Environmental Transformations - A Geography of the Anthropocene (Paperback)
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Environmental Transformations - A Geography of the Anthropocene (Paperback)
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Price R468
Discovery Miles 4 680
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From the depths of the oceans to the highest reaches of the
atmosphere, the human impact on the environment is significant and
undeniable. These forms of global and local environmental change
collectively appear to signal the arrival of a new geological
epoch: the Anthropocene. This is a geological era defined not by
natural environmental fluctuations or meteorite impacts, but by
collective actions of humanity. Environmental Transformations
offers a concise and accessible introduction to the human practices
and systems that sustain the Anthropocene. It combines accounts of
the carbon cycle, global heat balances, entropy, hydrology, forest
ecology and pedology, with theories of demography, war, industrial
capitalism, urban development, state theory and behavioural
psychology. This book charts the particular role of geography and
geographers in studying environmental change and its human drivers.
It provides a review of critical theories that can help to uncover
the socio-economic and political factors that influence
environmental change. It also explores key issues in contemporary
environmental studies, such as resource use, water scarcity,
climate change, industrial pollution and deforestation. These
issues are 'mapped' through a series of geographical case studies
to illustrate the particular value of geographical notions of
space, place and scale, in uncovering the complex nature of
environmental change in different socio-economic, political and
cultural contexts. Finally, the book considers the different ways
in which nations, communities and individuals around the world are
adapting to environmental change in the twenty-first century.
Particular attention is given throughout to the uneven geographical
opportunities that different communities have to adapt to
environmental change and to the questions of social justice this
situation raises. This book encourages students to engage in the
scientific uncertainties that surround the study of environmental
change, while also discussing both pessimistic and more optimistic
views on the ability of humanity to address the environmental
challenges of our current era.
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