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Our Changing Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science and Global Environmental Change
ISBN: 9780132713214 | 0132713217
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 10/1/1997
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This text is a general interdisciplinary discussion of global environmental change oriented toward the non-specialist in science. Presented are both Earth Science and ecological concepts related to global change, as well as discussion of the human dimensions of change.
| Preface | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Natural System | p. 9 |
| Earth's Lithosphere: Geologic Time and Building Blocks | p. 11 |
| Earth's Lithosphere: Plate Tectonics | p. 37 |
| Earth's Atmosphere and Hydrosphere | p. 65 |
| Earth's Ecosphere | p. 121 |
| Biogeochemical Cycles of Carbon, Nutrients, and Oxygen | p. 155 |
| Historical Framework of Global Environmental Change | ... MOREp. 181 |
| The Human Dimension | p. 207 |
| World Population, Development, and Resource Consumption | p. 209 |
| The Changing Earth Surface: Terrestrial Vegetation | p. 245 |
| The Changing Earth Surface: Land and Water | p. 279 |
| The Changing Atmosphere: Acid Deposition and Photochemical Smog | p. 313 |
| The Changing Atmosphere: Global Climatic Change | p. 351 |
| Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change | p. 419 |
| Minerals | p. 439 |
| Answers to Study Questions | p. 447 |
| Glossary | p. 467 |
| References | p. 473 |
| Index | p. 481 |
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