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100 _aWhitehead, Mark
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245 _aEnvironmental transformations:
_ba geography of the anthropocene
_cMark Whitehead
260 _bRoutledge,
_c2014.
_aOxon:
300 _ax, 176 p.
505 _aChapter 1: Introduction -- Geography in the Anthropocene Part 1: Environmental Transformations Chapter 2: Resources -- Oil and Water Chapter 3: Air -- Science and the Atmosphere Chapter 4: Soil -- The Political Ecology of Soil Degradation Chapter 5: Forests -- Jungle Capitalism and the Corporate Environment Chapter 6: Cities -- Sprawl and the Urban Planet Part 2: Living in the Anthropocene Chapter 7: Governing the Environment Chapter 8: Greening the Brain: Understanding and Changing Human Behaviour Chapter 9: Conclusions: Misanthropy, Adaptation and Safe Operating Spaces
520 _aFrom the depths of the oceans to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, the human impact on the environment is significant and undeniable. These forms of global and local environmental change collectively signal the arrival of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. 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. 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. This book charts the particular role of geography and geographers in studying environmental change and its human drivers. It provides a review of critical theories that can help to uncover the socio-economic and political factors that influence environmental change. It also explores key issues in contemporary environmental studies, such as resource use, water scarcity, climate change, industrial pollution and deforestation"
650 _aEP
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650 _aNATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
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650 _aNature -- Effect of human beings on.
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