Ambio
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Release : 1986
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Author : Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademien
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Category : Ecology
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Author : Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien
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Author : Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademien
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Category : Biogeochemistry
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Release : 1988
Category : Adaptation (Biology)
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Author : Robert Costanza
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 2011-01-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262515970
Scholars from a range of disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future. Human history, as written traditionally, leaves out the important ecological and climate context of historical events. But the capability to integrate the history of human beings with the natural history of the Earth now exists, and we are finding that human-environmental systems are intimately linked in ways we are only beginning to appreciate. In Sustainability or Collapse?, researchers from a range of scholarly disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future. The contributors focus on the human-environment interactions that have shaped historical forces since ancient times and discuss such key methodological issues as data quality. Topics highlighted include the political ecology of the Mayans; the effect of climate on the Roman Empire; the "revolutionary weather" of El Niño from 1788 to 1795; twentieth-century social, economic, and political forces in environmental change; scenarios for the future; and the accuracy of such past forecasts as The Limits to Growth.
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Highlights "Ambio," a journal published by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that focuses on the scientific, social, economic, and cultural factors that influence the condition of the human environment. Includes instructions for authors and subscription information. Contains the tables of contents for back issues of the journal.
Author : Thomas S. Bianchi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
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Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 0190627719
Humans have had a long relationship with the ebb and flow of tides on river deltas around the world. The fertile soils of river deltas provided early human civilizations with a means of farming crops and obtaining seafood from the highly productive marshes and shallow coastal waters associated with deltas. However, this relationship has at times been both nurturing and tumultuous for the development of early civilizations. The vicissitudes of seasonal changes in river flooding events as well as frequently shifting deltaic soils made life for these early human settlements challenging. These natural transient processes that affect the supply of sediments to deltas today are in many ways very similar to what they have been over the millennia of human settlements. But something else has been altered in the natural rhythm of these cycles. The massive expansion of human populations around the world in both the lower and upper drainage basins of these large rivers have changed the manner in which sediments and water are delivered to deltas. Because of the high density of human populations found in these regions, humans have developed elaborate hydrological engineering schemes in an attempt to "tame" these deltas. The goal of this book is to provide information on the historical relationship between humans and deltas that will hopefully encourage immediate preparation for coastal management plans in response to the impending inundation of major cities, as a result of global change around the world.