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The Resource The Earth as transformed by human action : global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years, edited by B.L. Turner II [and others] ; with computer graphics by Montine Jordan

The Earth as transformed by human action : global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years, edited by B.L. Turner II [and others] ; with computer graphics by Montine Jordan

Work
Publication
Extent
xvi, 713 pages
Note
Based on papers presented at a symposium held at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., Oct. 25-30, 1987
Contents
  • Foreword : the relativity of time and transformation / Robert McC. Adams -- The great transformation / Robert W. Kates, B.L. Turner, II, William C. Clark -- Changes in population and society. Long-term population change / Thomas M. Whitmore ... [et al.] -- Population / Paul Demeny -- Technological change / Daniel R. Headrick -- Institutions, social organization, and cultural values / John W. Bennett, Kenneth A. Dahlberg -- The increasing separation of production and consumption / Michael Chisholm -- Urbanization / Brian J.L. Berry -- Awareness of human impacts : changing attitudes and emphases / David Lowenthal -- Transformations of the global environment. Long-term environmental change / Patricia F. McDowell, Thompson Webb, III, Patrick J. Bartlein -- Land transformation / John F. Richards -- Forests / Michael Williams -- Soils / Boris G. Rozanov, Viktor Targulian, D.S. Orlov -- Sediment transfer and siltation / Ian Douglas
  • (cont.) Use and transformation of terrestrial water systems / Mark I. L'vovich, Gilbert F. White -- Water quality and flows / Harry E. Schwarz ... [et al.] -- The coastal zone / H. Jesse Walker -- Atmospheric trace constituents / T.E. Graedel, P.J. Crutzen -- Marine environment / Timothy D. Jickells, Roy Carpenter, Peter S. Liss -- Climate / Jill Jäger, Roger G. Barry -- Terrestrial fauna / Robert L. Peters, Thomas E. Lovejoy -- Marine biota / Ray Hilborn -- Flora / Ghillean T. Prance -- Carbon / R.A. Houghton, David L. Skole -- Sulfur / Rudolf B. Husar, Janja Djukic Husar -- Nitrogen and phosphorus / Vaclav Smil -- Trace pollutants / Halina Szejnwald Brown, Roger E. Kasperson, Susan Raymond -- The ionizing radiations / Merril Eisenbud -- Regional studies of transformation. The Huang-Huai-Hai Plain / Zuo Dakang, Zhang Peiyuan -- Amazonia / Eneas Salati ... [et al.] -- Borneo and the Malay Peninsula / Harold Brookfield ... [et al.] -- Caucasia / Yu P. Badenkov ... [et al.]
  • (cont.) East African Highlands / Leonard Berry, Laurence A. Lewis, Cara Williams -- The Russian Plain / E.B. Alayev, Yu P. Badenkov, N.A. Karavaeva -- The United States Great Plains / William E. Riebsame -- The Basin of Mexico / Exequiel Ezcurra -- Nigeria / Reuben K. Udo ... [et al.] -- Sweden / Torsten Hägerstrand, Ulrik Lohm -- The Hudson-Raritan Basin / Joel A. Tarr, Robert U. Ayres -- Switzerland / Christian Pfister, Paul Messerli -- Understanding transformations. The realm of meaning : the inadequacy of human-nature theory and the view of mass consumption / Robert D. Sack -- The realm of social relations : production, reproduction, and gender in environmental transformations / Carolyn Merchant -- The realm of cultural-human ecology : adaptation and change in historical perspective / Karl W. Butzer
Isbn
9780521446303
Instance
Label
The Earth as transformed by human action : global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years
Title
The Earth as transformed by human action
Title remainder
global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years
Statement of responsibility
edited by B.L. Turner II [and others] ; with computer graphics by Montine Jordan
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DLC
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
Language note
Based on papers presented at a symposium held at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., Oct. 25-30, 1987
LC call number
GF75
LC item number
.E15 1990
Literary form
non fiction
NAL call number
GF75.E15
NAL item number
1990
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1945-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Turner, B. L.
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Nature
  • Human ecology
  • Global environmental change
  • Population
  • Ecología humana
  • Población
  • Homme
  • Écologie humaine
  • Population
  • Environnement
  • Population
  • Effets sur l'environnement
  • Minéralogie
  • Ecologie humaine
  • Pollution
  • Global environmental change
  • Human ecology
  • Nature
  • Population
  • Biosfeer
  • Menselijke invloed
  • Mineralogia
  • Nature
  • Pollution
  • Écologie humaine
  • Population
  • Environnement
Label
The Earth as transformed by human action : global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years, edited by B.L. Turner II [and others] ; with computer graphics by Montine Jordan
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Based on papers presented at a symposium held at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., Oct. 25-30, 1987
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Foreword : the relativity of time and transformation / Robert McC. Adams -- The great transformation / Robert W. Kates, B.L. Turner, II, William C. Clark -- Changes in population and society. Long-term population change / Thomas M. Whitmore ... [et al.] -- Population / Paul Demeny -- Technological change / Daniel R. Headrick -- Institutions, social organization, and cultural values / John W. Bennett, Kenneth A. Dahlberg -- The increasing separation of production and consumption / Michael Chisholm -- Urbanization / Brian J.L. Berry -- Awareness of human impacts : changing attitudes and emphases / David Lowenthal -- Transformations of the global environment. Long-term environmental change / Patricia F. McDowell, Thompson Webb, III, Patrick J. Bartlein -- Land transformation / John F. Richards -- Forests / Michael Williams -- Soils / Boris G. Rozanov, Viktor Targulian, D.S. Orlov -- Sediment transfer and siltation / Ian Douglas
  • (cont.) Use and transformation of terrestrial water systems / Mark I. L'vovich, Gilbert F. White -- Water quality and flows / Harry E. Schwarz ... [et al.] -- The coastal zone / H. Jesse Walker -- Atmospheric trace constituents / T.E. Graedel, P.J. Crutzen -- Marine environment / Timothy D. Jickells, Roy Carpenter, Peter S. Liss -- Climate / Jill Jäger, Roger G. Barry -- Terrestrial fauna / Robert L. Peters, Thomas E. Lovejoy -- Marine biota / Ray Hilborn -- Flora / Ghillean T. Prance -- Carbon / R.A. Houghton, David L. Skole -- Sulfur / Rudolf B. Husar, Janja Djukic Husar -- Nitrogen and phosphorus / Vaclav Smil -- Trace pollutants / Halina Szejnwald Brown, Roger E. Kasperson, Susan Raymond -- The ionizing radiations / Merril Eisenbud -- Regional studies of transformation. The Huang-Huai-Hai Plain / Zuo Dakang, Zhang Peiyuan -- Amazonia / Eneas Salati ... [et al.] -- Borneo and the Malay Peninsula / Harold Brookfield ... [et al.] -- Caucasia / Yu P. Badenkov ... [et al.]
  • (cont.) East African Highlands / Leonard Berry, Laurence A. Lewis, Cara Williams -- The Russian Plain / E.B. Alayev, Yu P. Badenkov, N.A. Karavaeva -- The United States Great Plains / William E. Riebsame -- The Basin of Mexico / Exequiel Ezcurra -- Nigeria / Reuben K. Udo ... [et al.] -- Sweden / Torsten Hägerstrand, Ulrik Lohm -- The Hudson-Raritan Basin / Joel A. Tarr, Robert U. Ayres -- Switzerland / Christian Pfister, Paul Messerli -- Understanding transformations. The realm of meaning : the inadequacy of human-nature theory and the view of mass consumption / Robert D. Sack -- The realm of social relations : production, reproduction, and gender in environmental transformations / Carolyn Merchant -- The realm of cultural-human ecology : adaptation and change in historical perspective / Karl W. Butzer
Dimensions
29 cm
Extent
xvi, 713 pages
Isbn
9780521446303
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Lccn
89022362
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
  • (OCoLC)20294746
  • (OCoLC)ocm20294746
Label
The Earth as transformed by human action : global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years, edited by B.L. Turner II [and others] ; with computer graphics by Montine Jordan
Publication
Note
Based on papers presented at a symposium held at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., Oct. 25-30, 1987
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Foreword : the relativity of time and transformation / Robert McC. Adams -- The great transformation / Robert W. Kates, B.L. Turner, II, William C. Clark -- Changes in population and society. Long-term population change / Thomas M. Whitmore ... [et al.] -- Population / Paul Demeny -- Technological change / Daniel R. Headrick -- Institutions, social organization, and cultural values / John W. Bennett, Kenneth A. Dahlberg -- The increasing separation of production and consumption / Michael Chisholm -- Urbanization / Brian J.L. Berry -- Awareness of human impacts : changing attitudes and emphases / David Lowenthal -- Transformations of the global environment. Long-term environmental change / Patricia F. McDowell, Thompson Webb, III, Patrick J. Bartlein -- Land transformation / John F. Richards -- Forests / Michael Williams -- Soils / Boris G. Rozanov, Viktor Targulian, D.S. Orlov -- Sediment transfer and siltation / Ian Douglas
  • (cont.) Use and transformation of terrestrial water systems / Mark I. L'vovich, Gilbert F. White -- Water quality and flows / Harry E. Schwarz ... [et al.] -- The coastal zone / H. Jesse Walker -- Atmospheric trace constituents / T.E. Graedel, P.J. Crutzen -- Marine environment / Timothy D. Jickells, Roy Carpenter, Peter S. Liss -- Climate / Jill Jäger, Roger G. Barry -- Terrestrial fauna / Robert L. Peters, Thomas E. Lovejoy -- Marine biota / Ray Hilborn -- Flora / Ghillean T. Prance -- Carbon / R.A. Houghton, David L. Skole -- Sulfur / Rudolf B. Husar, Janja Djukic Husar -- Nitrogen and phosphorus / Vaclav Smil -- Trace pollutants / Halina Szejnwald Brown, Roger E. Kasperson, Susan Raymond -- The ionizing radiations / Merril Eisenbud -- Regional studies of transformation. The Huang-Huai-Hai Plain / Zuo Dakang, Zhang Peiyuan -- Amazonia / Eneas Salati ... [et al.] -- Borneo and the Malay Peninsula / Harold Brookfield ... [et al.] -- Caucasia / Yu P. Badenkov ... [et al.]
  • (cont.) East African Highlands / Leonard Berry, Laurence A. Lewis, Cara Williams -- The Russian Plain / E.B. Alayev, Yu P. Badenkov, N.A. Karavaeva -- The United States Great Plains / William E. Riebsame -- The Basin of Mexico / Exequiel Ezcurra -- Nigeria / Reuben K. Udo ... [et al.] -- Sweden / Torsten Hägerstrand, Ulrik Lohm -- The Hudson-Raritan Basin / Joel A. Tarr, Robert U. Ayres -- Switzerland / Christian Pfister, Paul Messerli -- Understanding transformations. The realm of meaning : the inadequacy of human-nature theory and the view of mass consumption / Robert D. Sack -- The realm of social relations : production, reproduction, and gender in environmental transformations / Carolyn Merchant -- The realm of cultural-human ecology : adaptation and change in historical perspective / Karl W. Butzer
Dimensions
29 cm
Extent
xvi, 713 pages
Isbn
9780521446303
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Lccn
89022362
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
  • (OCoLC)20294746
  • (OCoLC)ocm20294746

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