The Human Impact on the Natural Environment: Past, Present, and Future
- ISBN-10
- 1118576586
- ISBN-13
- 9781118576588
- Series
- The Human Impact on the Natural Environment
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 410
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-06-10
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Author
- Andrew Goudie
Description
The seventh edition of this classic student text explores themultitude of impacts that humans have had over time uponvegetation, animals, soils, water, landforms and the atmosphere. Italso looks into the future and considers the ways in which climatechanges and modifications in land cover may change the environmentin coming decades. Extensively re-written, it contains many newstatistical tables, figures, and references. It is essentialreading for undergraduates in geography and environmental science,and for those who want a thorough, wide-ranging and balancedoverview of the impacts of humans upon naturalprocesses and systems from the Stone Age to the Anthropocene andwho wish to understand the major environmental issues that concernthe human race at the present time. Additional resources for this book can be found at: ahref="http://www.wiley.com/go/goudiehumanimpact"www.wiley.com/go/goudiehumanimpact/a.
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- 2013-04-25
- 376 pages
- Paperback
- John Wiley & Sons
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- 2013-04-02
- 424 pages
- Paperback
- John Wiley & Sons
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- 2005-09-12
- 376 pages
- Paperback
- Wiley-Blackwell
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