Human impact on the environment : ancient roots, current challenges /: ancient roots, current challenges. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Judith E. Jacobsen and John Firor.
• Editors: Jacobsen, Judith; Firor, John
• Contents: Introduction -- From Small Groups to Large: The Impact of Hunting, Farming, and Cities -- The Impact of Early People on the Environment: The Case of Large Mammal Extinctions -- The Impact of Food Production: Short-Term Strategies and Long-Term Consequences -- The Epidemiology of Civilization -- The Industrial Era: New Societies, New Technologies, New Problems -- The Revolution in the Family and the World We Have Made -- Pollution and the Emergence of Industrial America -- Exhaustibility of British Coal in Long-Run Perspective -- The Environment Goes Global: Issues of the Late Twentieth Century -- Global Climate Change -- Global Water Resources: The Coming Crises -- Tropical Forests and Human Society -- Designing the Future: Coping with the Crises -- Creating an International Process to Address Greenhouse Warming -- Human Impacts -- African Search for Solutions -- Transitions to a Sustainable Society
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 304.2/8; Nature -- Effect of human beings on; Human ecology -- History; Paleoecology; Environmental degradation -- History; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429037757; 0429037759; 9780429735585; 0429735588; 9780429715570; 0429715579; 9780429695568
• Related ISBNs: 042969556X; 9780367007898
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 10, 2019).
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