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Title

The earth transformed : an introduction to human impacts on the environment / Andrew Goudie & Heather Viles.

Author

Goudie, Andrew

Publication

Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1997.

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Additional Authors

Viles, Heather A.

Description

276 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

Subject

Nature > Effect of human beings on

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Introduction to the developing environmental impact -- Early days -- Developing populations -- Agricultural revolutions -- Urban and industrial revolutions -- The modern scene -- Understanding environmental transformations -- 2. The biosphere -- Fire -- The Yellowstone fires of 1988 -- Dessertification -- Desertification in north central China -- Deforestation -- Managing tropical rain forest in cameroon -- Tropical secondary forest formation -- Grasslands and heathlands: the human role -- Recent human impacts on subalpine grassland and heathland in Victoria, Australia -- Temperate forests under stress -- Forest decline in Bavaria, Germany -- Urban ecology -- Chicago's changing vegetation -- Wetlands: the kidneys of the landscape -- Wetlands management in the Niger Inland Delta -- Biodiversity and extinctions -- Pandas, plants and parks: conserving biodiversity in China -- Introductions, invasions and explosions -- Alien plant species invading Kakadu National Park, Australia -- Habitat loss and fragmentation -- Texas Gulf Coast habitat changes and the Lesser Snow Goose -- Extinctions in the past -- Biotechnology, genetic engineering and the environment.
• 3. The atmosphere -- Anthropogenic climate change -- The role of aerosols -- The dust bowl -- The Gulf War oil fires: hype and reality -- Anthropogenic climate change -- The role of land cover changes -- The enhanced Greenhouse Effect and global warming -- Global warming and UK agriculture -- Urban climates -- The implications of some urban heat islands -- Urban air pollution -- Air pollution in South African cities: the legacy of apartheid -- Ozone depletion and ozone pollution -- Acid deposition -- 4. The waters -- River regulation -- Modification of the Colorado River, USA -- Forests and river flow -- George Perkins Marsh -- Pioneer investigator of human impacts on forests and hydrology -- The hydrological response to urbanization -- Land drainage -- Water pollution -- Past and present pollution of the River Clyde, Scotland -- Eutrophication -- Controlling eutrophication: Lake Biwa, Japan -- Thermal pollution -- Inter-basin water transfers and the death of the Aral Sea -- Groundwater depletion and groundwater rise.
• 5. The land surface -- Soil erosion by water -- Soil erosion on the South Downs, southern England -- Wind erosion and dune reactivation -- Controlling sand at Walvis Bay, Namibia -- River channel changes -- Salinization -- Accelerated landslides -- Slope erosion in the Pacific north-west of North America -- Ground subsidence -- Waste disposal -- Stone decay in urban buildings -- Venice's decaying treasures -- 6. Oceans, seas and coasts -- Sea-level rise -- Sea level rise and the Essex coast marshes, England -- Coastal erosion -- Erosion at Victoria Beach, Nigeria -- Coastal flooding -- Flooding at Towyn, North Wales, February 1990 -- Coastal and marine pollution -- Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea -- Coastal dune management -- Managing dunes on the Lancashire coast, England -- Coral Reef degradation -- Threatened reefs of the Red Sea -- Aquaculture and Coastal Wetlands -- Pond culture in the Philippines -- 7. Conclusion -- The complexity of human impact -- Towards a sustainable future.

ISBN

• 0631194649
• 0631194657 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96026798^

OCLC

• 34943340
• SCSB-12488049

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library