- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (203 entries) : 244 images, digital files.
- Summary
- Looks at and analyses the interactions, feedbacks and causes of global environmental change from a holistic viewpoint and report upon some of the key aspects of human knowledge that are required for an integrated science.
- Uniform Title
- Encyclopedia of global environmental change. Volume 3, Causes and consequences of global environmental change (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Causes and consequences of global environmental change.
- Subject
- Global environmental change > Encyclopedias
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available in print version.
- System Details (note)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on title page of print version.
- Contents
- Human Disturbance of the Earth System: Dynamics and Complexities -- Global land cover and land use trends and changes -- Global Population Trends -- Trends in Global Emissions: Carbon, Sulfur, and Nitrogen -- Anthropogenic Metabolism and Environmental Legacies -- Industrial and Anthroposystem Metabolism -- Water Use: Future Trends, and Environmental and Social Impacts -- Contaminated Lands and Sediments: Chemical Time Bombs? -- Rice and its Spread: Double Cropping; New Varieties- Environmental Consequences and Methane Gas, Sustainability -- Environmental Change and Human Health: Extending the Sustainability Agenda -- Environmental Changes Driven by Civil Conflict and War -- A-Y.
- OCLC
- ssj0000679966
- Title
Encyclopedia of global environmental change. Volume 3, Causes and consequences of global environmental change [electronic resource] / volume editor, Ian Douglas ; editor-in-chief, Ted Munn.
- Imprint
Chichester [Eng.] ; New York [N.Y.] : Wiley, c2002 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2011.)
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats
Also available in print version.
- System Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Note
Description based on title page of print version.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Douglas, Ian, 1936-
Munn, R. E.
Credo Reference (Firm)
- Other Form:
Print version: 9780470853627