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Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Preface to the Eighth Edition 12 About the Companion Website 14 Chapter 1 Introduction 16 1.1 The Development of Ideas 16 1.2 The Anthropocene 20 1.3 The Development of Human Population and Stages of Cultural Development 21 1.4 Hunting and Gathering 25 1.5 Humans as Cultivators and Keepers 27 1.6 Mining and Metals 33 1.7 Modern Industrial and Urban Civilizations 34 1.8 The Great Acceleration 36 1.9 Methods of Study 39 Guide to Reading 40 Chapter 2 The Human Impact on Vegetation 42 2.1 Human Impacts on Nature 42 2.2 Vegetation Change: Introduction 43 2.3 The Use of Fire 47 2.4 Fires: Natural and Anthropogenic 49 2.5 Some Consequences of Fire Suppression 49 2.6 Some Effects of Fire on Vegetation 50 2.7 The Role of Grazing 52 2.8 Deforestation 54 2.9 Tropical Forests 55 2.10 The Forest Transition 60 2.11 Secondary Rain Forest 63 2.12 The Human Role in the Creation and Maintenance of Savanna 64 2.13 The Spread of Desert Vegetation on Desert Margins 67 2.14 The Maquis of the Mediterranean Lands 71 2.15 The Prairies and Other Mid‐latitude and High‐altitude Grasslands 71 2.16 Post‐glacial Vegetational Change in Britain and Europe 74 2.17 Lowland

Author

Andrew S. Goudie

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