ISBN:
0231139667
,
0231139675
,
9780231139663
,
9780231139670
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 270 p)
,
ill., maps
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Humanity's Footprint : Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Environmental justice
;
Sustainable development
;
Overpopulation
;
Nature Effect of human beings on
;
Environmental degradation
;
Environmental ethics
Abstract:
For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems. Our expanding footprint has tremendous momentum, and the insidious explosion of human impact creates a shockwave that threatens ecosystems worldwide for decades-possibly centuries.Walter K. Dodds depicts in clear, nontechnical terms the root causes and global environmental effects of human behavior. He describes trends in population growth, resource use, and global environmental impacts of the past two centuries, such as greenhouse effects, ozone depletion, water pollution, and species ext
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-261) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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