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- catalog contributor b9952262.
- catalog contributor b9952263.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction to the developing environmental impact -- Early days -- Developing populations -- Agricultural revolutions -- Urban and industrial revolutions -- The modern scene -- Understanding environmental transformations -- 2. The biosphere -- Fire -- The Yellowstone fires of 1988 -- Dessertification -- Desertification in north central China -- Deforestation -- Managing tropical rain forest in cameroon -- Tropical secondary forest formation -- Grasslands and heathlands: the human role -- Recent human impacts on subalpine grassland and heathland in Victoria, Australia -- Temperate forests under stress -- Forest decline in Bavaria, Germany -- Urban ecology -- Chicago's changing vegetation -- Wetlands: the kidneys of the landscape -- Wetlands management in the Niger Inland Delta -- Biodiversity and extinctions -- Pandas, plants and parks: conserving biodiversity in China -- Introductions, invasions and explosions -- Alien plant species invading Kakadu National Park, Australia -- Habitat loss and fragmentation -- Texas Gulf Coast habitat changes and the Lesser Snow Goose -- Extinctions in the past -- Biotechnology, genetic engineering and the environment.".
- catalog description "3. The atmosphere -- Anthropogenic climate change -- The role of aerosols -- The dust bowl -- The Gulf War oil fires: hype and reality -- Anthropogenic climate change -- The role of land cover changes -- The enhanced Greenhouse Effect and global warming -- Global warming and UK agriculture -- Urban climates -- The implications of some urban heat islands -- Urban air pollution -- Air pollution in South African cities: the legacy of apartheid -- Ozone depletion and ozone pollution -- Acid deposition -- 4. The waters -- River regulation -- Modification of the Colorado River, USA -- Forests and river flow -- George Perkins Marsh -- Pioneer investigator of human impacts on forests and hydrology -- The hydrological response to urbanization -- Land drainage -- Water pollution -- Past and present pollution of the River Clyde, Scotland -- Eutrophication -- Controlling eutrophication: Lake Biwa, Japan -- Thermal pollution -- Inter-basin water transfers and the death of the Aral Sea -- Groundwater depletion and groundwater rise.".
- catalog description "5. The land surface -- Soil erosion by water -- Soil erosion on the South Downs, southern England -- Wind erosion and dune reactivation -- Controlling sand at Walvis Bay, Namibia -- River channel changes -- Salinization -- Accelerated landslides -- Slope erosion in the Pacific north-west of North America -- Ground subsidence -- Waste disposal -- Stone decay in urban buildings -- Venice's decaying treasures -- 6. Oceans, seas and coasts -- Sea-level rise -- Sea level rise and the Essex coast marshes, England -- Coastal erosion -- Erosion at Victoria Beach, Nigeria -- Coastal flooding -- Flooding at Towyn, North Wales, February 1990 -- Coastal and marine pollution -- Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea -- Coastal dune management -- Managing dunes on the Lancashire coast, England -- Coral Reef degradation -- Threatened reefs of the Red Sea -- Aquaculture and Coastal Wetlands -- Pond culture in the Philippines -- 7. Conclusion -- The complexity of human impact -- Towards a sustainable future.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "276 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0631194649".
- catalog identifier "0631194657 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass., USA : Blackwell,".
- catalog subject "304.2/8 20".
- catalog subject "GF75 .G677 1997".
- catalog subject "Nature Effect of human beings on.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction to the developing environmental impact -- Early days -- Developing populations -- Agricultural revolutions -- Urban and industrial revolutions -- The modern scene -- Understanding environmental transformations -- 2. The biosphere -- Fire -- The Yellowstone fires of 1988 -- Dessertification -- Desertification in north central China -- Deforestation -- Managing tropical rain forest in cameroon -- Tropical secondary forest formation -- Grasslands and heathlands: the human role -- Recent human impacts on subalpine grassland and heathland in Victoria, Australia -- Temperate forests under stress -- Forest decline in Bavaria, Germany -- Urban ecology -- Chicago's changing vegetation -- Wetlands: the kidneys of the landscape -- Wetlands management in the Niger Inland Delta -- Biodiversity and extinctions -- Pandas, plants and parks: conserving biodiversity in China -- Introductions, invasions and explosions -- Alien plant species invading Kakadu National Park, Australia -- Habitat loss and fragmentation -- Texas Gulf Coast habitat changes and the Lesser Snow Goose -- Extinctions in the past -- Biotechnology, genetic engineering and the environment.".
- catalog tableOfContents "3. The atmosphere -- Anthropogenic climate change -- The role of aerosols -- The dust bowl -- The Gulf War oil fires: hype and reality -- Anthropogenic climate change -- The role of land cover changes -- The enhanced Greenhouse Effect and global warming -- Global warming and UK agriculture -- Urban climates -- The implications of some urban heat islands -- Urban air pollution -- Air pollution in South African cities: the legacy of apartheid -- Ozone depletion and ozone pollution -- Acid deposition -- 4. The waters -- River regulation -- Modification of the Colorado River, USA -- Forests and river flow -- George Perkins Marsh -- Pioneer investigator of human impacts on forests and hydrology -- The hydrological response to urbanization -- Land drainage -- Water pollution -- Past and present pollution of the River Clyde, Scotland -- Eutrophication -- Controlling eutrophication: Lake Biwa, Japan -- Thermal pollution -- Inter-basin water transfers and the death of the Aral Sea -- Groundwater depletion and groundwater rise.".
- catalog tableOfContents "5. The land surface -- Soil erosion by water -- Soil erosion on the South Downs, southern England -- Wind erosion and dune reactivation -- Controlling sand at Walvis Bay, Namibia -- River channel changes -- Salinization -- Accelerated landslides -- Slope erosion in the Pacific north-west of North America -- Ground subsidence -- Waste disposal -- Stone decay in urban buildings -- Venice's decaying treasures -- 6. Oceans, seas and coasts -- Sea-level rise -- Sea level rise and the Essex coast marshes, England -- Coastal erosion -- Erosion at Victoria Beach, Nigeria -- Coastal flooding -- Flooding at Towyn, North Wales, February 1990 -- Coastal and marine pollution -- Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea -- Coastal dune management -- Managing dunes on the Lancashire coast, England -- Coral Reef degradation -- Threatened reefs of the Red Sea -- Aquaculture and Coastal Wetlands -- Pond culture in the Philippines -- 7. Conclusion -- The complexity of human impact -- Towards a sustainable future.".
- catalog title "The earth transformed : an introduction to human impacts on the environment / Andrew Goudie & Heather Viles.".
- catalog type "text".