Human impact on the environment : ancient roots, current challenges

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Human impact on the environment : ancient roots, current challenges

edited by Judith E. Jacobsen and John Firor

Westview Press, 1992

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"Published in cooperation with Rice University and Scientia, an interdisciplinary group at Rice University, Houston, Texas"--Added t.p. verso

From a symposium held at Rice University in April 1991

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book explores the way in which human culture and technology have altered the environment through time. The contributors, drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, history, physics and atmospheric science, explore the relationship between humans and the environment as an ongoing process, not just as a recent artifact of the post-Industrial Revolution world. Through an examination of the past and an analysis of the present, they cast light on the short-term strategies and long-term consequences of human behaviour on the environment.

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  • Part 1 From small groups to large - the impact of hunting, farming, and cities: the impact of early people on their environment, Richard Klein
  • the impact of food production - short-term strategies and long-term consequences, Charles Redman
  • the epidemiology of civilization, Mark N. Cohen. Part 2 The industrial era - new societies, new technologies, new problems: the revolution in the family and the world we have made, David Levine
  • pollution and the emergence of industrial America, Martin Melosi
  • the coal question revisited - British energy prices and technology in long-term perspective, G.N. von Tunzelmann. Part 3 The environment goes global - issues of the late 20th century: global greenhouse effect - principles and human-induced causes, Ralph Cicerone
  • world forest watch, Roberto Pereira da Cunha
  • global water resources - the coming crisis, Peter Gleick. Part 4 Designing the future - coping with the crises: tropical forests and the future of the human species, James D. Nations
  • what we can learn from the amoeba, Jon H. Gibbons
  • creating an international process to address greenhouse warming - the integration of technology, economics and politics, William Nitze.

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