Paleoclimate, global change and the future
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Paleoclimate, global change and the future
(Global change : the IGBP series)
Springer, c2003
Available at 15 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
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  Tokyo
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
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  Aichi
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  France
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-216) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides a synthesis of the past decade of research into global changes that occurred in the earth system in the past. Focus is achieved by concentrating on those changes in the Earth's past environment that best inform our evaluation of current and future global changes and their consequences for human populations. The book stands as a ten year milestone in the operation of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). It seeks to provide a quantitative understanding of the Earths environment in the geologically recent past and to define the envelope of natural environmental variability against which anthropogenic impacts on the Earth System may be assessed. A set of color overhead transparencies based on the figures in the book is available free on the PAGES website (www pages-igbp.org) for use in teaching and lecturing.
Table of Contents
The Societal Relevance for Past Global Change Research * The History of Atmospheric Trace Gases and Aerosols: Interactions between Climate and Biogeochemical Cycles * The History of Climate Dynamics * The History of Biogeochemical Cycles during the Late Quaternary * The Roles and Responses of Vegetation in the Climate System * The Earth System during the Last 1,000 Years * The Role of Human Activities in Past Environmental Change * Challenges of a Changing Earth: Past Perspectives, Future Concerns.
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