Accessibly written by a team of international authors, the Encyclopedia of Environmental Change provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change. This three-volume set illustrates and examines topics within this dynamic and rapidly changing interdisciplinary field. The encyclopedia includes all of the following aspects of environmental change:
Diverse evidence of environmental change, including climate change and changes on land and in the oceans
Underlying natural and anthropogenic causes and mechanisms
Wide-ranging local, regional and global impacts from the polar regions to the tropics
Responses of geo-ecosystems and human-environmental systems in the face of past, present and future environmental change
Approaches, methodologies and techniques used for reconstructing, dating, monitoring, modelling, projecting and predicting change
Social, economic and political dimensions of environmental issues, environmental conservation and management and environmental policy
Over 4,000 entries explore the following key themes and more:
Conservation
Demographic change
Environmental management
Environmental policy
Environmental security
Food security
Glaciation
Green Revolution
Human impact on environment
Industrialization
Landuse change
Military impacts on environment
Mining and mining impacts
Nuclear energy
Pollution
Renewable resources
Solar energy
Sustainability
Tourism
Trade
Water resources
Water security
Wildlife conservation
The comprehensive coverage of terminology includes layers of entries ranging from one-line definitions to short essays, making this an invaluable companion for any student of physical geography, environmental geography or environmental sciences.