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In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important ... More

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Global Environmental History introduces this rapidly developing field through a broad and thought-provoking range of expert contributions. ... More

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The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing ... More

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This book explores the shifting relationship between people and their environments by focusing on the environmental change and historical change from ... More

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Global warming and the future of the climate is one of the greatest challenges of our time, but what do we know about climate variations 500 years ... More

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Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Clive Ponting's book studies the relationship between the environment and human history. It examines ... More

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This book addresses contemporary geographical issues in the Mediterranean Basin from a perspective that recognizes the physical characteristics and ... More

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Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, ... More

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English summary: Who is the wind-energy industry? The author pursues this question in order to analyze the rapidly growing industry by using use of ... More

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In recent decades, historical geographers have left the study of nature-culture interactions to others, most notably to environmental historians. ... More

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A unifying discussion of our increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and greater resource demands.

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Now more than ever, other cultures are affecting our everyday lives--and our children need to learn about the other countries of the world and their ... More

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Explains what science knows about climate change, how it will affect us, its impact on different areas, and what we can do about it.

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Together with experts in a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences--including botany, geology, ecology, geography and archaeology- ... More

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Merchant provides a context-setting overview of American environmental history from the beginning of the millennium; an encyclopedia of important ... More

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Bridging the divide between social and natural sciences, the contributors to this book use a holistic perspective to explore the relationships ... More

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The study of landscape and place has become an increasingly fertile realm of inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. In this new book of ... More

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Will modern society survive the current environment crisis it faces or will our civilization dwindle and fade in the face of global warming, ... More

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Now in its second edition. This text has been extensively revised and rewritten to reflect the growth in environmental research during the last ... More

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El Nino is an extreme climate perturbation that periodically changes weather throughout the globe, often with dire consequences. First recognized in ... More

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Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis ... More

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Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis ... More

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Students of sociology, politics, history, and economics will appreciate this vibrant introduction to globalization by scholar and former journalist ... More

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In the last decade Ireland's immigrant population grew to more than one in ten. Now in the midst of an economic crisis the integration of immigrants ... More

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