Encyclopedia of Global Change - 2 volumes

• A comprehensive and interdisciplinary guide to the Earth's environment
• Includes over 320 entries
• Includes over 300 graphs, photographs, and maps
• Invaluable reference for academics and great appeal to general readers
• Throughout are a sytem of cross-references, blind entries and bibliographies

Contents

More than 320 entries will fall within the major categories set out below. However, all entries will be arranged alphabetically in the encyclopaedia; Earth Systems: Earth history and the nature of geological change; Geomorphological change; The changing atmosphere; The changing hydrosphere; The changing biosphere; Dynamics of coupled earth systems; Climate change; Changing ecosystems Sources and Impacts of Global Environmental Change: Industrial production and consumption; Energy production and consumption; Water production, consumption and quality; Changing land use; Changing biological resources of continents and oceans; Population changes, Air quality; Food supply; The changing face of disease; Economic impacts of global change; Political impacts of global change Measurement and Modelling of Global Environmental Change: Data gathering: Tools and techniques; Data Analysis: Tools and techniques; System Modelling: Tools and techniques Human Responses to Global Change: Environmental economics; environmental politics; The impact of science and technology; The structure of sociology of global change research; International congresses and agreements; Policies for a sustainable future