Environmental Change - Key Issues and Alternative Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor Frank Oldfield is an Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Liverpool. Klappentext Revealing the current and future significance of environmental and climatic change! this study outlines the conceptual framework for studies by posing key questions and presenting the most recent relevant research. It provides a basic 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 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. Zusammenfassung This book explains the significance of past and contemporary environmental and climatic change. It poses key questions and presents the results ofresearch. Extensively referenced and illustrated! it is a balanced! non-specialist exploration of global change for advanced undergraduates in geography! environmental! earth! biological and ecological sciences. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Defining and exploring the key questions; 2. An introduction to models and modelling; 3. The palaeo-record: approaches, timeframes and chronology; 4. The palaeo-record: archives, proxies and calibration; 5. Glacial and interglacial worlds; 6. The transition from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene; 7. The Holocene; 8. The Anthropocene - a changing atmosphere; 9. The Anthropocene - changing land; 10. The Anthropocene: changing aquatic environments and ecosystems; 11. Changing biodiversity; 12. Detection and attribution; 13. Future mean global temperatures and sea-level; 14. From the global to the specific; 15. Impacts and vulnerability; 16. Sceptics, responses and partial answers.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Oldfield, Frank (University of Liverpool) Oldfield, Oldfield Frank
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.08.2005
• EAN: 9780521536332
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53633-2
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 247 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, environmental science, engineering & technology, Meteorology & climatology, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Meteorology and climatology, Environmental science, engineering and technology