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Environmental Transformations : A Geography of the Anthropocene by Mark Whitehead is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Environmental Transformations : A Geography of the Anthropocene about?

From the depths of the oceans to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, the human impact on the environment is significant and undeniable. These forms of global and local environmental change collectively appear to signal the arrival of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This is a geological era defined not by natural environmental fluctuations or meteorite impacts, but by collective actions of humanity. Environmental Transformations offers a concise and accessible introduction to the human practices and systems that sustain the Anthropocene. It combines accounts of the carbon cycle, global heat balances, entropy, hydrology, forest ecology and pedology, with theories of demography, war, industrial capitalism, urban development, state theory and behavioural psychology. This book charts the particular role of geography and geographers in studying environmental change and its human drivers. It provides a review of critical theories that can help to uncover the socio-economic and political factors that influence environmental change. It also explores key issues in contemporary environmental studies, such as resource use, water scarcity, climate change, industrial pollution and

Who reads Environmental Transformations : A Geography of the Anthropocene?

Author

Mark Whitehead

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415809832

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Nature, Sociology, Science