The Way the Wind Blows: Climate Change, History, and Human Action

by Roderick J. McIntosh

Book Overview

Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences. Environmental issues are fundamentally human issues and must be set in the context of social, political, cultural, and economic knowledge. The need both to understand how human beings in the past responded to climatic and other environmental changes and to synthesize the implications...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231112084
• ISBN13: 9780231112086
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher