TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matthews, John A.
TI  - Encyclopedia of environmental change / 
SN  - 9781446247112 (set)
AV  - GE 149  .En19a 2014
PY  - 2014///;©2014
CY  - Los Angeles : 
PB  - SAGE Reference, 
KW  - Global environmental change
KW  - sears
N2  -  Approaches, methodologies and techniques used for reconstructing, dating, monitoring, modelling, projecting and predicting change;  Responses of geo-ecosystems and human-environmental systems in the face of past, present and future environmental change;  Social, economic and political dimensions of environmental issues, environmental conservation and management and environmental policy.    The book covers more than 4,000 entries. The comprehensive coverage of terminology includes layers of entries ranging from one-line definitions to short essays, making this an invaluable companion for any student of physical geography, environmental geography or environmental sciences;  Underlying natural and anthropogenic causes and mechanisms;  Wide-ranging local, regional and global impacts from the polar regions to the tropics; Accessibly written by a team of international authors, the Encyclopedia of Environmental Change provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change.  This three-volume set illustrates and examines topics within this dynamic and rapidly changing interdisciplinary field.  The encyclopedia includes all of the following aspects of environmental change such as:Diverse evidence of environmental change, including climate change and changes on land and in the oceans
ER  -