Changing the face of the earth : culture, environment, history
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Changing the face of the earth : culture, environment, history
Blackwell, 1989
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Includes index
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ISBN 9780631140498
内容説明
This history describes the human impact on the biophysical systems of the Earth from earliest times to the post-industrial world. Access to energy sources determines the way in which human beings use the natural environment and the degree of access to the forces of energy conditions the rate of environmental change. Professor Simmons considers the impact on primitive man of fire, the advances made by hunter societies, the development of agriculture and the effects of industrialization, with the use of fossil-fuel energy and the population explosion. The author concludes with an assessment of current environmental change and the attempts to assess and control the effects of human activities on the climate and surface of the Earth.
目次
Chapter 1 General Introduction Chapter 2 Primitive Man and His Surroundings Chapter 3 Advanced Hunters Chapter 4 Agriculture and Its Impact Chapter 5 Industrialists Chapter 6 The Nuclear Age Chapter 7 Conclusions.
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: pbk ISBN 9780631163510
内容説明
This is a history of the human impact upon the natural environment of the Earth. It is a compelling story, the result of many years of original research and scholarship and drawn from work in a wide range of natural and humane disciplines. It covers every kind of culture and society, ranges in time from the earliest social groupings to the present, and considers the short and long-term consequences of current trends. A key argument of the book, and one that informs its structure, is that access to energy is a crucial influence on the way in which we have used and exploited our natural surroundings. If environmental impacts of the discovery of fire were substantial, and of agriculture dramatic, the effects of industrial and technological change over the last two centuries have been revolutionary. Exponential growth in the use of fossil fuels and of the human population mean that our own activities now constitute a critical variable in environmental change. The recent history of the interaction between human kind and nature has become different from the past not only in degree but in kind: and there is a mismatch between our ability to affect and to control the natural environment.
These issues form the concluding theme of this book. `Changing the Face of the Earth' is appropriately illustrated with photographs, maps and diagrams, and contains a full annotated bibliography and an index.
目次
Chapter 1 General Introduction Chapter 2 Primitive Man and His Surroundings Chapter 3 Advanced Hunters Chapter 4 Agriculture and Its Impact Chapter 5 Industrialists Chapter 6 The Nuclear Age Chapter 7 Conclusions.
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