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Our changing planet : an introduction to earth system science and global environmental change / Fred T. Mackenzie.
LIBRA GE105 .M33 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mackenzie, Fred T., 1934-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental sciences.
- Human ecology.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Global environmental change.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 579 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Prentice Hall, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction: the changing planetary system
- Earth's lithosphere: geologic time and building blocks
- Earth's lithosphere: plate tectonics
- The fluid earth: atmosphere
- The fluid earth: hydrosphere and air-sea interactions
- Our living planet: earth's ecosphere
- Biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nutrients, and oxygen
- Historical framework of global environmental change
- Human forcings on the ecosphere: world population, development and resource consumption
- The changing earth surface: terrestrial vegetation
- The changing earth surface: land and water
- The changing atmosphere: acid deposition and photochemical smog
- The changing atmosphere: pleistocene and holocene environmental change
- The changing atmosphere: global warming and stratospheric ozone depletion
- Human dimensions of global environmental change.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 550-561) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780321667724
- 0321667727
- OCLC:
- 462910151
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