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- Written in an accessible and engaging style to appeal to undergraduate students looking for an engaging overview of this important field
- Provides an accessible, up-to-date, integrative approach to human-environment interactions
- Brings together both social and natural science approaches to core environmental issues
- Includes numerous illustrative case studies throughout the text
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Providing an accessible, up-to-date, approach to human-environment interactions with balanced coverage of both social and natural science approaches to core environmental issues, this textbook is an integrative, multi-disciplinary offering that discusses environmental issues and processes within the context of human societies. The book begins by addressing the three most pressing issues of our time: climate change, threshold exceedance, and the 6th mass extinction. From there the authors identify within chapters on resources, population, agriculture and urbanization what precipitated and continues to sustain these three issues. They end with a chapter outlining some practical solutions to our human-environment crises.
The book will be a valuable resource for interdisciplinary environment related courses bridging the gap between the social and natural sciences, human geographies and physical geographies.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Geography, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, USA
Mark R. Welford
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Department of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA
Robert A. Yarbrough
About the authors
Robert A. Yarbrough is Associate Professor of Geography in the Department of Geology and Geography at Georgia Southern University, USA. His research areas include nature-society geographies, critical cultural geographies, and immigration.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human-Environment Interactions
Book Subtitle: An Introduction
Authors: Mark R. Welford, Robert A. Yarbrough
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56032-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56031-7Published: 07 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56032-4Published: 06 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 249
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environment Studies, Environmental Geography, Physical Geography, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Policy