Environmental Transformations
Environmental Transformations From the depths of the oceans to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, the human impact on the environment is significant and undeniable. This is a geological era…
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Environmental Transformations
From the depths of the oceans to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, the human impact on the environment is significant and undeniable. 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. These forms of global and local environmental change collectively appear to signal the arrival of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.
This book charts the particular role of geography and geographers in studying 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.