Key Issues in Environmental Change

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1. Atmospheric Pollution and Environmental Change

   By Sarah Metcalfe, Dick Derwent

   Series: Key Issues in Environmental Change

   Atmospheric Pollution and Environmental Change is an introduction to the major pollutants causing concern today, a description of their sources and how their emissions and concentrations have changed through time.Approaching atmospheric change in the context of its effects on the natural...

   Published April 28th 2005 by Routledge
2. Environmental Archaeology

   Theoretical and Practical Approaches

   By Chris Turney, Matthew Canti, Nick Branch, Peter Clark

   Series: Key Issues in Environmental Change

   Environmental Archaeology: Theoretical and Practical Approaches outlines and assesses the various methods used to reconstruct and explain the past interaction between people and their environment. Emphasising the importance of a highly scientific approach to the subject, the book combines...

   Published April 28th 2005 by Routledge
3. Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Change

   By Lesley Head

   Series: Key Issues in Environmental Change

   Cultural landscapes are usually understood within physical geography as those transformed by human action. As human influence on the earth increases, advances in palaeocological reconstruction have also allowed for new interpretations of the evidence for the earliest human impacts on the...

   Published October 30th 2000 by Routledge
4. Glaciers and Environmental Change

   By Atle Nesje, Svein Olat Dahl

   Series: Key Issues in Environmental Change

   This authoritative new text provides a thorough, updated account of glaciers and ice sheets as monitors and indicators of environmental change. It examines the record of environmental change within glaciers and ice sheets, and that of past environments left by retreating glaciers. These themes are...

   Published April 27th 2000 by Routledge
5. Environmental Change in Mountains and Uplands

   By Martin Beniston

   Series: Key Issues in Environmental Change

   Mountain environments are often perceived to be austere, isolated, and inhospitable. In fact, these areas are of immense value to mankind, providing direct life support to close to 10 percent of the world's population and sustaining a wide variety of species - many of which are endemic to this...

   Published March 26th 2000 by Routledge