Turner The Green Marble

Earth System Science and Global Sustainability
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54284-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

In this concise and accessible text, David P. Turner presents an overview of global environmental change and a synthesis of research from earth system science and sustainability science. It provides a framework for understanding human impact on the environment for anyone interested in our current predicaments and what we can do about them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Turner, David

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Kybernetik, Systemtheorie, Komplexe Systeme
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Interdisziplinär Systemtheorie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Abbreviations
1. Earth System Science
2. Earth’s Geosphere, Biosphere, and Climate
3. The Evolution of the Biosphere
4. Technosphere Impacts on the Global Biogeochemical Cycles
5. Technosphere Impacts on the Biosphere
6. Scenarios of Global Environmental Change
7. Globalization and Ecological Modernization
8. Global Environmental Governance
9. Global Monitoring
10. Integrating Social and Ecological Systems
11. Key Concepts for a New Planetary Paradigm
Lexicon of the Spheres
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Turner David:
David P. Turner is a Professor of Global Environmental Change at Oregon State University. He is co-editor of a recent book on ecological modeling (Bachelet and Turner 2015, Wylie). After receiving a Masters degree at the University of Colorado and a Ph.D. at Washington State University, he worked for 10 years on global change issues with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He teaches a graduate course in Global Environmental Change for the on-line Masters in Natural Resources graduate program at OSU.David P. Turner is a research professor in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University.