Environmental Change and Human Development: Controlling nature? (Arnold Publication) - Brossura

Barrow, Chris

 
9780340764046: Environmental Change and Human Development: Controlling nature? (Arnold Publication)
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ISBN 10: 034076404X ISBN 13: 9780340764046
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2003

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Environmental Change and Human Development focuses on environmental change and human fortunes. While there is a large and rapidly expanding literature dealing with how people affect the environment, less attention has been given in recent years to how the environment shapes human development. In an ever more crowded world there is a need for anticipatory environmental management, and a crucial input to this is consideration of the interaction between environment and humans.



The environment is not as stable, benign or controllable as people like to think. The world population is vastly larger than it has ever been and is still growing, and humans increasingly upset nature through pollution and other activities. While modern communications may help environmental managers, rapid travel also increases the dispersal of diseases and pests. Technological advance and social development is not all beneficial; some innovations have the effect of making people more vulnerable to disruption by natural disaster, and citizens are often less able to cope with changed conditions than people were in the past.



Environmental Change and Human Development addresses key issues such as soil degredation, natural climatic variations and volcanic activity, and provides geography and earth sciences students with an essential introduciton to the major debates surrounding this topic.

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Informazioni sull?autore

C.J. Barrow is Reader in the School of the Environment and Society, Swansea University, UK.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2003
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
034076404X
ISBN 13 
9780340764046
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
264
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9780340764039: Environmental Change and Human Development: Controlling nature?

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ISBN 10:  0340764031 ISBN 13:  9780340764039
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2003
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