
Environmental Change and Human Development
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The environment is not as stable, benign or controllable as people like to think. The world population is vastly larger than it has ever been and is still growing, and humans increasingly upset nature through pollution and other activities. While modern communications may help environmental managers, rapid travel also increases the dispersal of diseases and pests. Technological advance and social development is not all beneficial; some innovations have the effect of making people more vulnerable to disruption by natural disaster, and citizens are often less able to cope with changed conditions than people were in the past.
Environmental Change and Human Development addresses key issues such as soil degredation, natural climatic variations and volcanic activity, and provides geography and earth sciences students with an essential introduciton to the major debates surrounding this topic.
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It provides a readable overview of environmental change in an attractive overall package.The Holocene
...needs to be on the book shelf of academics, senior government officials and industrialists
International Journal of Environmental Studies
I do not hesitate to recommend it [the book] for inclusion in library collections and extended reading lists.
Environmental Conservation
This book addresses key issues such as soil degradation, natural climatic variations and volcanic activity, and provides geography and earth sciences students with an essential introduction to the major debates surrounding this topic.
- January
CAB abstracts
Student friendly, clearly written and logically structured, contemporary in approach and content and informed by international literature.
The Times Higher
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Content
Past environmental change (pre-history to Roman)
Past environmental change (Roman to modern)
Modern situation
Threats - due to humans
Acts of nature
Environmental management and environmental change
Responses
The future.
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