The SAGE handbook of environmental change. VOlume II, Human impacts and responses [electronic resource] / [edited by] John A Matthews [and others].
- Additional Titles:
- Handbook of environmental change
- Published:
- London : SAGE, 2012.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Additional Creators:
- Matthews, John A. (John Anthony), 1947-
Access Online
- SAGE knowledge: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Background to the Science of Environmental Change / Frank Oldfield -- SECTION I APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE -- 2.Philosophical and Methodological Perspectives on the Science of Environmental Change / Stephan Harrison -- 3.Direct Observation and Monitoring of Climate and Related Environmental Change / Keith Alverson -- 4.Reconstructing and Inferring Past Environmental Change / Frank M. Chambers -- 5.Dating Environmental Change and Constructing Chronologies / Mike Walker -- 6.Modelling Environmental Change and Developing Future Projections / Reto Knutti -- 7.Approaches to Understanding Long-term Human-Environment Interactions: Past, Present and Future / John A. Dearing -- SECTION II EVIDENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND THE GEO-ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE -- 8.Environmental Change in the Geological Record / Claire McDonald -- 9.Evidence of Environmental Change from the Marine Realm / William R. Howard -- 10.Evidence of Environmental Change from the Cryosphere / Shawn Marshall -- 11.Evidence of Environmental Change from Terrestrial Palaeohydrology / Wim Z. Hoek -- 12.Evidence of Environmental Change from Terrestrial and Freshwater Palaeoecology / Alison J. Smith -- 13.Evidence of Environmental Change from Aeolian and Hillslope Sediments and Other Terrestrial Sources / Joseph A. Mason -- 14.Environmental Change and Archaeological Evidence / Tim Denham -- 15.Evidence of Environmental Change from Annually Resolved Proxies with Particular Reference to Dendrochronology and the Last Millennium / David Frank -- 16.Early-Instrumental and Documentary Evidence of Environmental Change / Cary J. Mock -- SECTION III CAUSES, MECHANISMS AND DYNAMICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE -- 17.Plate Tectonics, Continental Drift, Vulcanism and Mountain Building / Paul Bishop -- 18.Extraterrestrial Causes of Environmental Catastrophes / H. Jay Melosh -- 19.Astronomical Theory and Orbital Forcing / Qiuzhen Yin -- 20.Millennial-Scale Climatic Events During the Last Glacial Episode / Anders Svensson -- 21.Solar and Volcanic Forcing of Decadal- to Millennial-scale Climatic Variations / Erich Fischer -- 22.Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions on Interannual to Decadal Time Scales / Rene D. Garreaud -- 23.Responses of Biogeochemical Cycles in the Sea to Environmental Change / Rainer Zahn -- 24.Anthropogenic Drivers of Environmental Change / Richard A. Betts -- SECTION IV HUMAN-INDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES AND THEIR IMPACTS ON GEO-ECOSYSTEMS -- 25.Monitoring Global Land Cover / Jamie Williams -- 26.Human Impacts on Terrestrial Biota and Ecosystems / Iain Gordon -- 27.Human Impacts on Lacustrine Ecosystems / Neil Rose -- 28.Human Impacts on Coastal and Marine Geo-Ecosystems / Ben Daley -- 29.Human Impacts on the Atmosphere / Kevin J. Noone -- SECTION V PATTERNS, PROCESSES AND IMPACTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AT THE REGIONAL SCALE -- 30.Environmental Change in the Humid Tropics and Monsoonal Regions / William D. Gosling -- 31.Environmental Change in the Arid and Semi-Arid Regions / Xiaoping Yang -- 32.Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Region / Miryam Bar-Matthews -- 33.Environmental Change in the Temperate Forested Regions / Patrick J. Bartlein -- 34.Environmental Change in the Temperate Grasslands and Steppe / Mayke Wagner -- 35.Environmental Change in the Arctic and Antarctic / Marianne S. V. Douglas -- 36.Environmental Change in Mountain Regions / Martin Beniston -- 37.Environmental Change in Coastal Areas and Islands / Patrick Nunn -- SECTION VI PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE RESPONSES OF PEOPLE TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE -- 38.Testing the Role of Climate Change in Human Evolution / Stella M. Blockley -- 39.The Origins and Spread of Early Agriculture and Domestication: Environmental and Cultural Considerations / Peter W. Stahl -- 40.Complexity, Causality and Collapse: Social Discontinuity in History and Prehistory / Georgina Endfield -- 41.Vulnerabilities and the Resilience of Contemporary Societies to Environmental Change / Donald R. Nelson -- 42.Disease, Human and Animal Health and Environmental Change / Andrew P. Morse -- 43.Policy and Management Options for the Mitigation of Environmental Change / Chris Cocklin -- 44.Socioeconomic Adaptation to Environmental Change: Towards Sustainable Development / Chris J. Barrow.
- Summary:
- In more than 40 chapters, this work examines the historic importance and future development of the field of environmental change, including theory, research and practice.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781446253052 (ebook)
- Audience Notes:
- Specialized.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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