Environmental Change and Human Development [[electronic resource] ] : Controlling nature?

• Autore: Barrow Chris
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.28
• Soggetto topico: Human beings - Effect of environment on - History; Human ecology; Social evolution; Environmental impact analysis; Anthropology; Social Sciences; Anthropogeography & Human Ecology
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Environmental change before modern humans appeared; 3 Environmental change during historical times; 4 Are twenty-first-century humans more vulnerable to nature?; 5 Ongoing natural threats; 6 Reacting to environmental challenges and opportunities; 7 Coping with nature; 8 The future; Glossary; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Environmental Change and Human Development focuses on environmental change and human fortunes. While there is a large and rapidly expanding literature dealing with how people affect the environment, less attention has been given in recent years to how the environment shapes human development. In an ever more crowded world there is a need for anticipatory environmental management, and a crucial input to this is consideration of the interaction between environment and humans. The environment is not as stable, benign or controllable as people like to think. The world populati
• Titolo autorizzato: Environmental Change and Human Development
• ISBN: 0-203-78448-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792289903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II