The global environmental future is a matter of major scientific and
public importance. Problems such as deforestation, pollution, the
loss of natural habitats, and greenhouse-gas induced global warming
have grave and often uncertain implications. But what do these
processes involve? What is causing them and what will or might be
their consequences? Global warming would, for example, have
far-reaching effects on sea levels, rainfall, glacier dynamics, and
the distribution of plants and animals, as well as on a wide range
of human activities.
"The Changing Global Environment" provides a clear,
well-integrated account by leading scientists of the nature of
change in the earth's natural environment in the past, present and
future. Taken as a whole, it is distinguished by its concern to
understand and to link environmental variations at local, regional
and planetary scales, by its clear analyses of human-environment
interactions, by its historical perspective, and by an awareness of
the social and political causes and consequences of environmental
change. The subject is as complex as it is crucial: the authors
have aimed not to simplify but to clarify uncertainties, issues and
processes.
The book is divided into six parts. The first introduces the
subject. The second describes patterns of global climatic change in
the distant and recent past and models of the climatic future. The
third examines the effects of climatic change or arctic and marine
environments. Part four is concerned with the hydrological system.
Part five focuses on tropical environments, humid, arid and
savanna. Part six provides four detailed case studies of change in
contrasting environments - desert, estuarine, river and
mountain.
Written to be accessible to both specialist and non-specialist
readers, this book also provides a powerful and stimulating
framework for the teaching of environmental issues in higher
education.
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