Accessibly written by a team of international authors, the Encyclopedia of Environmental Change provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change. This three-volume set illustrates and examines topics within this dynamic and rapidly changing interdisciplinary field. The encyclopedia includes all of the following aspects of environmental change:
- Diverse evidence of environmental change, including climate change and changes on land and in the oceans
- Underlying natural and anthropogenic causes and mechanisms
- Wide-ranging local, regional and global impacts from the polar regions to the tropics
- Responses of geo-ecosystems and human-environmental systems in the face of past, present and future environmental change
- Approaches, methodologies and techniques used for reconstructing, dating, monitoring, modelling, projecting and predicting change
- Social, economic and political dimensions of environmental issues, environmental conservation and management and environmental policy
Over 4,000 entries explore the following key themes and more:
- Conservation
- Demographic change
- Environmental management
- Environmental policy
- Environmental security
- Food security
- Glaciation
- Green Revolution
- Human impact on environment
- Industrialization
- Landuse change
- Military impacts on environment
- Mining and mining impacts
- Nuclear energy
- Pollution
- Renewable resources
- Solar energy
- Sustainability
- Tourism
- Trade
- Water resources
- Water security
- Wildlife conservation
The comprehensive coverage of terminology includes layers of entries ranging from one-line definitions to short essays, making this an invaluable companion for any student of physical geography, environmental geography or environmental sciences.