The Changing global environment /
The Changing global environment /
edited by Neil Roberts.
- Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1994.
- xii, 531 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [463] -522) e índice.
The global environmental future / Neil Roberts -- Remote sensing of environmental change / Roy Haines-Young -- Past climates and future greenhouse warming / F. Alayne Street-Perrott and Neil Roberts -- Historic records and recent climatic change / Mike Hulme -- Numerical modelling of global climates / Ann Henderson-Sellers -- Global warming and periglacial landscapes / Eduard A. Koster -- Ice volumes and climate change / David Sugden and Nick Hulton -- Sea-level response to climate / Michael J. Tooley -- Tropical coral islands--an uncertain future? / Tom Spencer -- Surface water acidification / Richard W. Battarbee -- Reconstructing the history of soil erosion / John Dearing -- Large-scale river regulation / Geoff Petts -- Savanna landscapes and global environmental change / Philip Stott -- Tropical moist forests : transformation or conservation? / Peter A. Furley -- Land degradation in the humid tropics / Ian Douglas -- Dryland degradation / Andrew Goudie -- Case 1 : changing use of the Sahara desert / Erhard Schulz -- Case 2 : the Chesapeake Bay estuarine system / Grace S. Brush -- Case 3 : China's Yellow River basin / Edward Derbyshire and Jingtai Wang -- Case 4 : deforestation in the Himalaya / Martin J. Haigh.
Summaries of research by physical geographers, covering themes such as rainforest destruction and remote sensing by satellites. The book aims to provide a clear, well-integrated account of how the processes of environmental change are altering the earth's natural environments.
1557862710 (alk. paper) 1557862729 (pbk. : alk. paper)
92035490
Primera Jornada de Catalogacion.
Geografia física.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Man--Influence on nature.
Climatic changes.
Physical geography.
304.28
Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [463] -522) e índice.
The global environmental future / Neil Roberts -- Remote sensing of environmental change / Roy Haines-Young -- Past climates and future greenhouse warming / F. Alayne Street-Perrott and Neil Roberts -- Historic records and recent climatic change / Mike Hulme -- Numerical modelling of global climates / Ann Henderson-Sellers -- Global warming and periglacial landscapes / Eduard A. Koster -- Ice volumes and climate change / David Sugden and Nick Hulton -- Sea-level response to climate / Michael J. Tooley -- Tropical coral islands--an uncertain future? / Tom Spencer -- Surface water acidification / Richard W. Battarbee -- Reconstructing the history of soil erosion / John Dearing -- Large-scale river regulation / Geoff Petts -- Savanna landscapes and global environmental change / Philip Stott -- Tropical moist forests : transformation or conservation? / Peter A. Furley -- Land degradation in the humid tropics / Ian Douglas -- Dryland degradation / Andrew Goudie -- Case 1 : changing use of the Sahara desert / Erhard Schulz -- Case 2 : the Chesapeake Bay estuarine system / Grace S. Brush -- Case 3 : China's Yellow River basin / Edward Derbyshire and Jingtai Wang -- Case 4 : deforestation in the Himalaya / Martin J. Haigh.
Summaries of research by physical geographers, covering themes such as rainforest destruction and remote sensing by satellites. The book aims to provide a clear, well-integrated account of how the processes of environmental change are altering the earth's natural environments.
1557862710 (alk. paper) 1557862729 (pbk. : alk. paper)
92035490
Primera Jornada de Catalogacion.
Geografia física.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Man--Influence on nature.
Climatic changes.
Physical geography.
304.28