The Holocene: An Environmental History - Softcover

Roberts, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631161783 ISBN 13: 9780631161783

Publisher: Blackwell Pub, 1989

Synopsis

Book by Roberts, Neil

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From the Back Cover

In its first edition, The Holocene provided undergraduates with a much-needed coherent scientific account of the great transformation of nature that had taken place during the Holocene, the last 10,000 years in the history of the planet and the period in which we are all now living. This period has included major shifts in climate and human culture, and in the natural environment at every level.

Completely revised and updated to take full account of the most recent advances, the new edition of this established text includes substantial material on scientific progress in the understanding of climate change and abrupt climatic events, of disturbance effects on the landscape, and of ice core records. Not only have improved dating methods, such as luminescence, been included but the timescale for the book has been moved to calendar (i.e. real) years. Coverage and supporting case study material have also been broadened and extended.

About the Author

Neil Roberts is Professor at the University of Plymouth. His main research interests are in Holocene environmental change, especially the lake sediment record of climate and human impact in low latitude regions such as East Africa and the Mediterranean. His previous books include The Changing Global Environment (Blackwell Publishers, 1994) and Ecological Relations in Historical Times (with Robin Butlin, Blackwell Publishers, 1995).

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631161783
• ISBN 13: 9780631161783
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 227