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Our Changing Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science and Global Environmental Change

by: Mackenzie, Fred T.

Our Changing Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science and Global Environmental Change

by: Mackenzie, Fred T.

ISBN 13:
9780130651723
ISBN 10:
0130651729
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2003
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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Summary

This book offers a general, interdisciplinary discussion of global environmental change oriented toward the non-specialist in science.The unifying theme of the book is consideration of aspects of both natural and human-induced global environmental change. The two part organization according to this distinction allows for easy reading on specific topics.This book is useful for anyone interested in learning more about Earth's systems.

I. THE NATURAL SYSTEM.

1. Earth's Lithosphere: Geologic Time and Building Blocks.
2. Earth's Lithosphere: Plate Tectonics.
3. The Fluid Earth: Atmosphere.
4. The Fluid Earth: Hydrosphere.
5. Earth's Ecosphere.
6. Biogeochemical Cycles of Carbon, Nutrients, and Oxygen.
7. Historical Framework of Global Environmental Change.

II. THE HUMAN DIMENSION.

8. World Population, Development, and Resource Consumption.
9. The Changing Earth Surface: Terrestrial Vegetation.
10. The Changing Earth Surface: Land and Water.
11. The Changing Atmosphere: Acid Deposition and Photochemical Smog.
12. The Changing Atmosphere: Pleistocene and Holocene Environmental Change.
13. The Changing Atmosphere: Global Warming and Stratospheric Ozone Depletion.
14. Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change.
Appendix A. Minerals.
Answers to Study Questions.
Glossary.
References.
Index.

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