The Human Impact on the Natural Environment - Softcover

Goudie, Andrew S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262571382 ISBN 13: 9780262571388

Publisher: MIT Press, 2000

Synopsis

The Human Impact on the Natural Environment has become the classic student text on how human activity has changed and continues to change the face of the Earth. The fifth edition maintains the structure of the previous editions as it examines the human role in natural processes and systems. Areas covered include animals, vegetation, soils, landforms, water, the atmosphere, and climate. The book also considers future implications, particularly global warming.The text and references of this edition have been updated throughout. The book includes new or expanded sections on species decline, pollution, sea level, ozone depletion, and climate change, as well as an expanded guide for further reading. It provides a comprehensive view of the major environmental issues facing the world today and gives students of the environment an essential introduction to the impact of humans on the Earth.

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Review

"The Human Impact is superb... While accessible to beginning students, it is both instructive and inspiring to professionals. It is a treasure chest of research ideas." --Stanley W. Trimble, University of California, Los Angeles

From the Back Cover

The Human Impact addresses the ways in which human activity has changed and is changing the face of the earth, by examining the human role in natural processes and systems. The fourth edition has been completely revised, reset and updated, contains many new maps, figures and illustrations and has well over 100 references to new research in the 1990s. Among the new and expanded sections of the book are those dealing with marine pollution, deforestation, desertification, plant and animal invasions, climatic change and environmental uncertainty.

This incisive account of our environmental predicament has not only proved popular with students throughout the world, but increasingly commands a substantial readership both in the scientific community and among the public at large. The fourth edition will reinforce its position as the most up–to–date and readable book on this vital subject.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262571382
• ISBN 13: 9780262571388
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 527