The Sage handbook of environmental change

Author(s)

• Matthews, John A.
• Bartlein, Patrick J.

Bibliographic Information

The Sage handbook of environmental change

edited by John A. Matthews, editor-in-chief ; Patrick J. Bartlein ... [et al.], associate editors

Sage, 2012

• : [set]
• v. 1
• v. 2

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The SAGE Handbook of Environmental Change is an extensive survey of the interdisciplinary science of environmental change, including recent debates on climate change and the full range of other natural and anthropogenic changes affecting the Earth-ocean-atmosphere system in the past, present and future. It examines the historic importance, present status and future prospects of the field over two volumes. With more than 40 chapters, the books situate the defining characteristics and key paradigms within a state-of-the-art review of the field, including its changing nature and diversity of approaches, evidence base, key theoretical arguments, resonances with other disciplines and relationships between theory, research and practice. Opening with a detailed, contextualizing essay by the editors, the work is arranged into six parts: Part One: Approaches to Understanding Environmental Change Part Two: Evidence of Environmental Change and the Geo-ecological Response Part Three: Causes, Mechanisms and Dynamics of Environmental Change Part Four: Key Issues of Human-induced Environmental Changes and Their Impacts Part Five: Patterns, Processes and Impacts of Environmental Change at the Regional Scale Part Six: Responses of People to Environmental Change and Implications for Society Global in its coverage, scientific and theoretical in its approach, the books bring together an international set of respected editors and contributors to provide an exciting, timely addition to the literature on climate change. With the subjects' interdisciplinary framework, this book will appeal to academics, researchers, postgraduates and practitioners in a variety of disciplines including, geography, geology, ecology, environmental science, archaeology, anthropology, politics and sociology.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION Background to the Science of Environmental Change - John A. Matthews, Patrick J. Bartlein, Keith R. Briffa, Alastair G. Dawson, Anne De Vernal, Tim Denham, Sherilyn C. Fritz and Frank Oldfield PART ONE: APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Philosophical and Methodological Perspectives on the Science of Environmental Change - Stephan Harrison Direct Observation and Monitoring of Climate and Related Environmental Change - Keith D. Alverson Reconstructing and Inferring Past Environmental Change - Frank M. Chambers Dating Environmental Change and Reconstructing Chronologies - Mike J.C. Walker Modelling Environmental Change and Developing Future Projections - Reto Knutti Approaches to Understanding Long-Term Human-Environment Interaction - John A. Dearing Past, Present and Future PART TWO: EVIDENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND THE GEO-ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE Environmental Change in the Geological Record - Jane E. Francis, Alan M. Haywood, Daniel Hill, Paul Marwick and Claire Mcdonald Evidence of Environmental Change from the Coastal and Marine Realm - Ian D. Goodwin and William R. Howard Evidence of Environmental Change from the Cryosphere - Shawn Marshall Evidence of Environmental Change from Terrestrial Palaeohydrology - Wim Hoek Evidence of Environmental Change from Terrestrial and Freshwater Palaeoecology - Alison J. Smith Evidence of Environmental Change from Aeolian and Hillslope Sediments and Other Terrestrial Sources - Joseph A. Mason Environmental Change and Archaeological Evidence - Tim Denham Evidence of Environmental Change from Annually-Resolved Proxies With Particular Reference to Dendroclimatology and the Last Millennium - Eugene R. Wahl and David Frank Early-Instrumental and Documentary Evidence of Environmental Change - Cary J. Mock PART THREE: CAUSES, MECHANISMS AND DYNAMICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Plate Tectonics, Continental Drift, Vulcanism and Mountain Building - Paul Bishop Extraterrestrial Causes of Environmental Catastrophes - Elisabetta Pierazzo and H. Jay Melosh Astronomical Theory and Orbital Forcing - Andre Berger Millennial-Scale Climatic Events during the Last Glacial Episode - Siwan M. Davies and Anders Svensson Solar and Volcanic Forcing of Decadal- to Millennial-Scale Climatic Variations - Raimund Muscheler and Eric Fischer Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions on Interannual to Decadal Timescales - Mathias Vuille and Rene D. Garreaud Responses of Biogeochemical Cycles in the Sea to Environmental Change - Thomas F. Pedersen and Rainer Zahn Anthropogenic Drivers of Environmental Change - Jemma L. Gornall, andrew J. Wiltshire and Richard A. Betts PART FOUR: KEY ISSUES OF HUMAN-INDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES AND THEIR IMPACTS Monitoring of Global Land-Cover - Sietse O. Los and Jamie Williams Human Impacts on Terrestrial Biota and Ecosystems - Craig Miller and Iain Gordon Human Impacts on Lacustrine Ecosystems - Richard W. Battarbee, Helen Bennion, Peter Gell and Neil Rose Human Impacts on Coastal and Marine Geo-Ecosystems - Ben Daley Human Impacts on the Atmosphere - Kevin J. Noone PART FIVE: PATTERNS, PROCESSES AND IMPACTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AT THE REGIONAL SCALE Environmental Change in the Humid Tropics and Monsoonal Regions - Mark Bush and Will D. Gosling Environmental Change in the Arid and Semi-Arid Regions - Yang Xiaoping Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Region - Mira Bar-Matthews Environmental Change in the Temperate Forested Regions - Matt Mcglone, Jamie Wood and Patrick J. Bartlein Environmental Change in the Temperate Grasslands and Steppe - Pavel E. Tarasov, John W. Williams, Jed O. Kaplan, Hermann OEsterle, Tatiana V. Kuznetsova and Mayke Wagner Environmental Change in the Arctic and Antarctic - Marianne S.V. Douglas Environmental Change in Mountain Regions - Martin Beniston Environmental Change in Coastal Areas and Islands - Patrick Nunn PART SIX: RESPONSES OF PEOPLE TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIETY Testing the Role of Climate Change in Human Evolution - S.P.E. Blockley, I. Candy and S.M. Blockley The Origins and Spread of Early Agriculture and Domestication - Deborah Pearsall and Peter W. Stahl Environmental and Cultural Considerations Complexity, Causality and Collapse - Georgina Endfield Social Discontinuity in History and Prehistory Vulnerability and Resilience of Contemporary Societies to Environmental Change - Donald R. Nelson Disease, Human and Animal Health, and Environmental Change - Matthew Baylis and Andrew P. Morse Policy and Management Options for the Mitigation of Environmental Change - Katie Moon and Chris Cocklin Socio-Economic Adaptation to Environmental Change - Chris J. Barrow Towards Sustainable Development

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• NCID: BB08189229
• ISBN:
  • 9780857023605
• LCCN: 2011923232
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Los Angeles
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 363.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Global environmental change