1st Edition
Environmental Change and Human Development Controlling nature?
By Chris Barrow
Copyright 2003
264 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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Environmental Change and Human Development focuses on environmental change and human fortunes. While there is a large and rapidly expanding literature dealing with how people affect the environment, less attention has been given in recent years to how the environment shapes human development. In an ever more crowded world there is a need for anticipatory environmental management, and a crucial... Read more
Introduction
Past environmental change (pre-history to Roman)
Past environmental change (Roman to modern)
Modern situation
Threats - due to humans
Acts of nature
Environmental management and environmental change
Responses
The future.
Past environmental change (pre-history to Roman)
Past environmental change (Roman to modern)
Modern situation
Threats - due to humans
Acts of nature
Environmental management and environmental change
Responses
The future.
Biography
C.J. Barrow is Reader in the School of the Environment and Society,
It provides a readable overview of environmental change in an attractive overall package.
The Holocene
...needs to be on the book shelf of academics, senior government officials and industrialists
International Journal of Environmental Studies
I do not hesitate to recommend it [the book] for inclusion in library collections and extended reading lists.
Environmental Conservation
This book addresses key issues such as soil degradation, natural climatic variations and volcanic activity, and provides geography and earth sciences students with an essential introduction to the major debates surrounding this topic.
- January
CAB abstracts
Student friendly, clearly written and logically structured, contemporary in approach and content and informed by international literature.
The Times Higher
