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Environmental Change Describes And Explains The Current And Future Significance Of Past And Contemporary Environmental, And Especially Climatic, Change. It Outlines The Conceptual Framework For Studies Of Environmental Change By Posing A Series Of Key Questions And Presenting The Results Of The Most Recent And Relevant Research. It Thereby Establishes A Basis For Evaluating Projections Of Future Environmental Change. This Book Provides A Balanced Basis For Understanding And Exploring The Scientific Issues Underlying Global Change For Advanced Undergraduates In Geography, Environmental, Earth, Biological And Ecological Sciences. By Providing A Non-specialist Introduction To Models In Environmental Change Research And To The Study Of Past Environmental Changes, It Seeks To Draw A Wider Group Of Students Into The Field.--book Jacket. 1. Defining And Exploring The Key Questions -- 2. An Introduction To Models And Modelling -- 3. The Palaeo-record : Approaches, Timeframes And Chronology -- 4. The Palaeo-record : Archives, Proxies And Calibration -- 5. Glacial And Interglacial Worlds -- 6. The Transition From The Last Glacial Maximum To The Holocene -- 7. The Holocene -- 8. The Anthropoc

Author

Oldfield, Frank

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781139165266

Subjects

Science, Mathematics, Physics