Environmental Change, 3 Vol. Set

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:nn Diverse evidence of environmental change, including climate change and changes on land and in the oceansnn Underlying natural and anthropogenic causes and mechanismsnn Wide-ranging local, regional and global impacts from the polar regions to the tropicsnn Responses of geo-ecosystems and human-environmental systems in the face of past, present and future environmental changenn Approaches, methodologies and techniques used for reconstructing, dating, monitoring, modelling, projecting and predicting changenn Social, economic and political dimensions of environmental issues, environmental conservation and management and environmental policynn nnOver 4,000 entries explore the following key themes and more:nn Conservationn Demographic changen Environmental managementn Environmental policyn Environmental securityn Food securityn Glaciationn Green Revolutionn Human impact on environmentn Industrializationn Landuse changen Military impacts on environmentn Mining and mining impactsn Nuclear energyn Pollutionn Renewable resourcesn Solar energyn Sustainabilityn Tourismn Traden Water resourcesn Water securityn Wildlife conservation