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The Changing global environment / edited by Neil Roberts.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1994.Description: xii, 531 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 1557862710 (alk. paper)
  • 1557862729 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.28
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) GF 75 C456 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000107593

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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.

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