Encyclopedia of Environmental Change: Three Volume Set

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.

John A. Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography at Swansea University, Wales.