Global Change in the Holocene

by Anson Mackay, H. John B. Birks, Richard W. Battarbee, et al.

The Holocene spans the 11,500 years since the end of the last Ice Age and has been a period of major global environmental change. However the rate of change has accelerated during the last hundred years, due largely to human impacts and this has led to a growing concern for the future of our environmental resources. Global Change in the Holocene demonstrates how reconstructing the record of past environmental change can provide us with essential knowledge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340812141
• ISBN13: 9780340812143
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 556 Pages
• Weight: 3.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.6"