Changing EnvironmentsDick Morris Wiley, 2003 M04 11 - 336 pages Are we humans destroying the environments in which we live, or is environmental change inevitable and natural? How has the relationship between human societies and environments changed since pre-history? Will human population growth outpace the available resources of land and water? Is global warming and climate change already out of control? What can economic and political models tell us about international development? Changing Environments takes a broad, interdisciplinary approach to such questions, drawing on ideas from science, technology, social science and humanities to examine how and why environments change as a result of natural and human-mediated processes. It draws on examples from around the world, and includes consideration of:
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... project ' set up to decode human DNA was able by 2001 to begin spelling out some of its incredibly complex detail ( Nature , 2001 ) . - The results have underlined the remarkable similarity between us and the rest of life . About 40 per ...
... project ' set up to decode human DNA was able by 2001 to begin spelling out some of its incredibly complex detail ( Nature , 2001 ) . - The results have underlined the remarkable similarity between us and the rest of life . About 40 per ...
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... projects a net cooling because the effect of greenhouse warming still predominates . There is concern that the THC might suddenly ' switch off in the space of a decade or so , because Greenland ice core records and ocean sediments show ...
... projects a net cooling because the effect of greenhouse warming still predominates . There is concern that the THC might suddenly ' switch off in the space of a decade or so , because Greenland ice core records and ocean sediments show ...
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... Projects Limited , London 1960 ; Figure 3.17 : © Crown Copyright ; Figure 3.18 : © Fritz Polking / Still Pictures . Chapter Four contents page : © Still Pictures ; Figure 4.1 : © Still Pictures ; Figure 4.2a : Roger Wilmshurst / FLPA ...
... Projects Limited , London 1960 ; Figure 3.17 : © Crown Copyright ; Figure 3.18 : © Fritz Polking / Still Pictures . Chapter Four contents page : © Still Pictures ; Figure 4.1 : © Still Pictures ; Figure 4.2a : Roger Wilmshurst / FLPA ...
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