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The Earth as transformed by human action global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years

B. L Turner 1945- (Billie Lee)

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1990

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  • Título:
    The Earth as transformed by human action global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years
  • Autor: B. L Turner 1945- (Billie Lee)
  • Assuntos: Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Congresses; Human ecology -- Congresses; Population -- Congresses; MINERALOGIA; Environment Effects of Humans
  • Notas: Includes bibliographies and index
  • Descrição: Foreword : the relativity of time and transformation / Robert McC. Adams -- The great transformation / Robert W. Kates, B.L. Turner, II, William C. Clark -- Changes in population and society. Long-term population change / Thoma s M. Whitmore ... [et al.] -- Population / Paul Demeny -- Technological change / Daniel R. Headrick -- Institutions, social organization, and cultural values / John W. Bennett, Kenneth A. Dahlberg -- The increasing separation o f production and consumption / Michael Chisholm -- Urbanization / Brian J.L. Berry -- Awareness of human impacts : changing attitudes and emphases / David Lowenthal -- Transformations of the global environment. Long-term enviro nmental change / Patricia F. McDowell, Thompson Webb III, Patrick J. Bartlein -- Land transformation / John F. Richards -- Forests / Michael Williams -- Soils / Boris G. Rozanov, Viktor Targulian, D.S. Orlov -- Sediment transfe r and siltation / Ian Douglas (cont.) Use and transformation of terrestrial water systems / Mark I. L'vovich, Gilbert F. White -- Water quality and flows / Harry E. Schwarz ... [et al.] -- The coastal zone / H. Jesse Walker -- Atmospheric trace constituents / T.E. Graedel, P.J. Crutzen -- Marine environment / Timothy D. Jickells, Roy Carpenter, Peter S. Liss -- Climate / Jill Jäger, Roger G. Barry -- Terrestrial fauna / Robert L. Peters, Thomas E. Lovejoy -- Marine biota / Ray Hi lborn -- Flora / Ghillean T. Prance -- Carbon / R.A. Houghton, David L. Skole -- Sulfur
    / Rudolf B. Husar, Janja Djukic Husar -- Nitrogen and phosphorus / Vaclav Smil -- Trace pollutants / Halina Szejnwald Brown, Roger E. Kaspe rson, Susan Swedis Raymond -- The ionizing radiations / Merril Eisenbud -- Regional studies of transformation. The Huang-Huai-Hai Plain / Zuo Dakang, Zhang Peiyuan -- Amazonia / Eneas Salati ... [et al.] -- Borneo and the Malay Peninsula / Harold Brookfield ... [et al.] -- Caucasia / Yu P. Badenkov ... [et al.] (cont.) East African Highlands / Leonard Berry, Laurence A. Lewis, Cara Williams -- The Russian Plain / E.B. Alayev, Yu P. Badenkov, N.A. Karavaeva -- The United States Great Plains / William E. Riebsame -- The Basin of Mexico / Exequiel Ezcurra -- Nigeria / Reuben K. Udo ... [et al.] -- Sweden / Torsten Hägerstrand, Ulrik Lohm -- The Hudson-Raritan Basin / Joel A. Tarr, Robert U. Ayres -- Switzerland / Christian Pfister, Paul Messerli -- Understandi ng transformations. The realm of meaning : the inadequacy of human-nature theory and the view of mass consumption / Robert D. Sack -- The realm of social relations : production, reproduction, and gender in environmental transfo rmations / Carolyn Merchant -- The realm of cultural-human ecology : adaptation and change in historical perspective / Karl W. Butzer
  • Editor: Cambridge Cambridge University Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: 1990
  • Formato: xvi, 713 p. ill., maps 28 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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