Environmental Change

Key Issues and Alternative Approaches

Frank Oldfield

384 pages, parution le 07/12/2005

Ajouter à une liste

Indisponible

Résumé

Environmental Change: Key Issues and Alternative Approaches describes and explains the current and future 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 the most recent and 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.

Identifies key questions in environmental science and addresses them from a broad and integrative perspective
Introduces the conceptual basis for modelling environmental and climatic change in language that is accessible to those unfamilar with numerical modelling
Provides an exhaustively referenced and up-to-date basis for developing a new advanced course component across a range of disciplines

Sommaire

Defining and exploring the key questions
An introduction to models and modelling
The palaeo-record: approaches, timeframes and chronology
The palaeo-record: archives, proxies and calibration
Glacial and interglacial worlds
The transition from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene
The Holocene
The Anthropocene - a changing atmosphere
The Anthropocene - changing land
The Anthropocene: changing aquatic environments and ecosystems
Changing biodiversity
Detection and attribution
Future mean global temperatures and sea-level
From the global to the specific
Impacts and vulnerability
Sceptics, responses and partial answers

Voir tout

Replier

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Frank Oldfield
Parution	07/12/2005
Nb. de pages	384
Format	19 x 24,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	835g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521536332
ISBN13	978-0-521-53633-2