Encyclopedia of Environmental ChangePainos 1

Accessibly written by a team of international authors, the Encyclopedia of Environmental Change provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change.  This three-volume set illustrates and examines topics within this dynamic and rapidly changing interdisciplinary field.  The encyclopedia includes all of the following aspects of environmental change:

• Diverse evidence of environmental change, including climate change and changes on land and in the oceans

• Underlying natural and anthropogenic causes and mechanisms

• Wide-ranging local, regional and global impacts from the polar regions to the tropics

• Responses of geo-ecosystems and human-environmental systems in the face of past, present and future environmental change

• Approaches, methodologies and techniques used for reconstructing, dating, monitoring, modelling, projecting and predicting change

• Social, economic and political dimensions of environmental issues, environmental conservation and management and environmental policy

Over 4,000 entries explore the following key themes and more:

• Conservation
• Demographic change
• Environmental management
• Environmental policy
• Environmental security
• Food security
• Glaciation
• Green Revolution
• Human impact on environment
• Industrialization
• Landuse change
• Military impacts on environment
• Mining and mining impacts
• Nuclear energy
• Pollution
• Renewable resources
• Solar energy
• Sustainability
• Tourism
• Trade
• Water resources
• Water security
• Wildlife conservation

The comprehensive coverage of terminology includes layers of entries ranging from one-line definitions to short essays, making this an invaluable companion for any student of physical geography, environmental geography or environmental sciences.