EAN: 9783030560317

HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS - MARK R WELFORD...

This textbook explores the growing area of human-environment interaction. We live in the
Anthropocene  an era dominated by humans  but also by the positive yet destructive
environmental feedbacks that are poised to completely reset the relationships between nature
and society. Modern and historic political  social  and cultural processes and physical
landscape responses determine the intensity of these impacts. Yet different cultural groups 
political and economic entities view  react to  and impact these human-environmental processes
in spatially distinct and divergent ways. 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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