Table of Contents

Preface to the second edition
Acknowledgements
1. Environmental change and human activity
2. Evidence for environmental change
3. Natural environmental change
4. Consequences of climatic change
5. People in a world of constant change
6. Cultural landscapes, human agency and environmental change
7. People, climate and erosion
8. The role of the past in a sustainable future: environment and heritage conservation
9. The impact of people on climate
Bibliography
Index

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Focuses on both scientific and social perspectives to provide a through analysis of climate change over the last 20,000 years.

About the Author

Martin Bell, M.J.C. Walker