The Earth as transformed by human action
Subtitle: global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years
By: edited by B.L. Turner II ... [et al.] ; with computer graphics by Montine Jordan.
Contributors: Turner, B. L. 1945-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 713
Subjects: Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Congresses; Human ecology -- Congresses; Population -- Congresses
Notes: Based on papers presented at a symposium held at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., Oct. 25-30, 1987.

Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword : the relativity of time and transformation / Robert McC. Adams; title: The great transformation / Robert W. Kates, B.L. Turner, II, William C. Clark; title: Changes in population and society. Long-term population change / Thomas M. Whitmore ... [et al.]; title: Population / Paul Demeny; title: Technological change / Daniel R. Headrick; title: Institutions, social organization, and cultural values / John W. Bennett, Kenneth A. Dahlberg; title: The increasing separation of production and consumption / Michael Chisholm; title: Urbanization / Brian J.L. Berry; title: Awareness of human impacts : changing attitudes and emphases / David Lowenthal; title: Transformations of the global environment. Long-term environmental change / Patricia F. McDowell, Thompson Webb III, Patrick J. Bartlein; title: Land transformation / John F. Richards; title: Forests / Michael Williams; title: Soils / Boris G. Rozanov, Viktor Targulian, D.S. Orlov; title: Sediment transfer and siltation / Ian Douglas.; title: (cont.)  Use and transformation of terrestrial water systems / Mark I. L'vovich, Gilbert F. White; title: Water quality and flows / Harry E. Schwarz ... [et al.]; title: The coastal zone / H. Jesse Walker; title: Atmospheric trace constituents / T.E. Graedel, P.J. Crutzen; title: Marine environment / Timothy D. Jickells, Roy Carpenter, Peter S. Liss; title: Climate / Jill Jäger, Roger G. Barry; title: Terrestrial fauna / Robert L. Peters, Thomas E. Lovejoy; title: Marine biota / Ray Hilborn; title: Flora / Ghillean T. Prance; title: Carbon / R.A. Houghton, David L. Skole; title: Sulfur / Rudolf B. Husar, Janja Djukic Husar; title: Nitrogen and phosphorus / Vaclav Smil; title: Trace pollutants / Halina Szejnwald Brown, Roger E. Kasperson, Susan Swedis Raymond; title: The ionizing radiations / Merril Eisenbud; title: Regional studies of transformation. The Huang-Huai-Hai Plain / Zuo Dakang, Zhang Peiyuan; title: Amazonia / Eneas Salati ... [et al.]; title: Borneo and the Malay Peninsula / Harold Brookfield ... [et al.]; title: Caucasia / Yu P. Badenkov ... [et al.]; title: (cont.)  East African Highlands / Leonard Berry, Laurence A. Lewis, Cara Williams; title: The Russian Plain / E.B. Alayev, Yu P. Badenkov, N.A. Karavaeva; title: The United States Great Plains / William E. Riebsame; title: The Basin of Mexico / Exequiel Ezcurra; title: Nigeria / Reuben K. Udo ... [et al.]; title: Sweden / Torsten Hägerstrand, Ulrik Lohm; title: The Hudson-Raritan Basin / Joel A. Tarr, Robert U. Ayres; title: Switzerland / Christian Pfister, Paul Messerli; title: Understanding transformations. The realm of meaning : the inadequacy of human-nature theory and the view of mass consumption / Robert D. Sack; title: The realm of social relations : production, reproduction, and gender in environmental transformations / Carolyn Merchant; title: The realm of cultural-human ecology : adaptation and change in historical perspective / Karl W. Butzer.