The Great Acceleration - An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945

Informationen zum Autor J. R. McNeill is University Professor in the Department of History and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Peter Engelke is a Senior Fellow at the Strategic Foresight Initiative at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC. Klappentext The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age¿the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet¿s biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. The Great Acceleration explains the causes, consequences, and uncertainties of this massive uncontrolled experiment. Zusammenfassung The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age—the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet’s biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. The Great Acceleration explains the causes, consequences, and uncertainties of this massive uncontrolled experiment.

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• Authors: Peter Engelke, Engelke Peter, J R McNeill, J. R. McNeill, J.R. McNeill, John Robert McNeill, Professor J. R. Mcneill
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780674545038
• ISBN: 978-0-674-54503-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 208 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, The environment, Political science & theory, General and world history, Political science and theory, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General