The Holocene: An Environmental History
In its first edition, The Holocene provided undergraduates with a much needed coherent scientific account of the great transformation of nature that had taken place during the Holocene, the last 10,000 years in the history of the planet and the period in which we are all now living This period has included major shifts in climate and human culture, and in the natural environment at every level Completely revised and updated to take full account of the most recent advances, the new edition of this established text includes substantial material on scientific progress in the understanding of climate change and abrupt climatic events, of disturbance effects on the landscape, and of ice core records Not only have improved dating methods, such as luminescence, been included but the timescale for the book has been moved to calendar i.e real years Coverage and supporting case study material have also been broadened and extended. Free Read Books The Holocene: An Environmental History Author Neil Roberts – kino-fada.fr Read this as part of my uni course, a concise and easy to understand read on the climate of the last 10,000 yearsThis is a very dense book that examines environmental change since the rise of mankind The first section of the book examines how we know what we know about the past Then we follow the impacts of the end of the Ice Age After that the incr...Still the best overview of climatic and environmental changes of the last 10000 years, the new edition adds most recent information and material.Focusing on the late Quartenary, this book takes a look at earth changing events which have occured during the last 15000 years
- English
- 04 April 2019 Neil Roberts
- Paperback
- 328 pages
- 0631186387
- Neil Roberts
- The Holocene: An Environmental History