World Environmental History
eBook - PDF

World Environmental History

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  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

World Environmental History

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About this book

World Environmental History explores how the biosphere is affected by human interventions such as climate change, deforestation, waste management, water and wind energy, population growth, oil spills, ecological imperialism, and urbanization. An interdisciplinary approach to the field considers biological and physical processes as integral parts of history, with mammals, birds, plants, bacteria, and viruses as "e;biotic actors"e; that play important roles. So do geological formations and disruptions, such as deserts, mountains, islands, earthquakes, and tsunamis. The volume's rich content includes articles on the anthroposphere, carrying capacity, ethnobotany, Gaia theory, and the Green Revolution, for instance-all of which define key concepts that shape the environmental studies so crucial to a sustainable future.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. About this “Berkshire Essentials” volume
  6. Introduction—World Environmental History
  7. Anthropocene
  8. Anthroposphere
  9. Biological Exchanges
  10. Carrying Capacity
  11. Climate Change
  12. Columbian Exchange
  13. Deforestation
  14. Desertification
  15. Deserts
  16. Diseases—Animal
  17. Diseases—Overview
  18. Diseases—Plant
  19. Earthquakes
  20. Ecological Imperialism
  21. Energy
  22. Environmental Movements
  23. Erosion
  24. Ethnobotany
  25. Extinctions
  26. Famine
  27. Fire
  28. Gaia Theory
  29. Green Revolution
  30. Ice Ages
  31. Islands
  32. Mountains
  33. Natural Gas
  34. Nature
  35. Oceans and Seas
  36. Oil Spills
  37. Population and the Environment
  38. Rivers
  39. Roads
  40. Salinization
  41. Timber
  42. Trees
  43. Water
  44. Water Energy
  45. Water Management
  46. Wind Energy
  47. Index
  48. Author Credits
  49. Other Berkshire Titles