Climate change in human history prehistory to the present
Climate Change in Human History provides an up-to-date and concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history. Starting with periods hundreds of thousands of years ago and continuing up to the present day, the book illustrates how natural climate vari...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney
Bloomsbury Academic
2018
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Climate Change in Human History provides an up-to-date and concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history. Starting with periods hundreds of thousands of years ago and continuing up to the present day, the book illustrates how natural climate variability affected early human societies, and how humans are now altering climate within much shorter periods of time--back cover Introduction -- A fragile start -- The rise of farming -- The rise and fall of civilizations -- Climate and civilizations of the Middle Ages -- The Little Ice Age -- Humans take over -- The future is now -- Climate change controversies |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 195-224 Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | 236 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 1472598504 1-4725-9850-4 1472598490 1-4725-9849-0 9781472598509 978-1-4725-9850-9 9781472598493 978-1-4725-9849-3 |