Table of Contents

1: A framework for understanding environmental change
2: Sources of evidence for reconstructing past environments
3: Pleistocene climatic change and environments of mid- to high latitudes
4: Pleistocene environments of lower latitudes
5: Environmental change in post-glacial times
6: Sea-level changes of the Quaternary
7: Environmental change during the period of meteorological records
8: Links between environmental change and human evolution and society
9: The causes of climatic change

Reviews

`Review from previous edition Overall, this is an excellent all-round textbook on environmental change. It is well worth a purchase - essential for libraries - and is a welcome addition to the Quaternary literature.'
Geological Magazine, 2008