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(1990) The Earth as transformed by human action : global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years

Authors
Turner ii B. , Clark W. , Kates R.W. , Richards J.F. , Mathews J.T. , Meyer W.B.
Source
Cambridge University Press (48)
Type
B - Book (360)
Peer Review
2 - Medium (2288)
Audience
G - Generalist (1722)
Notes

The volume concentrates on the impacts of human activities on the “faces and flows” of the gobal environment over the past three centuries. Its choice of subject implies that the impacts are to an important degree unidirectional. Any such choice of wording and subject has positivist or whiggian overtones. There are also Malthusian roots to the apparent assumption that changes in human societies and behaviour autonomously generate environmental impacts.

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Entered by: Ananya Mukherjee, 12/2009

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