The earth transformed: an introduction to human impacts on the environment/
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Oxford ; Malden, Massachusetts:
Blackwell Publishers,
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Table of 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.