The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History

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John Wiley & Sons, 2010 - 354 páginas
The Human Footprint is a global, thematic, and multi-disciplinary history of the planet, from its earliest origins to its current condition. Avoiding conventional narratives and using the latest research in a diverse range of fields, Penna brings harmony to human history and ecology and provides a fresh, much-needed narrative of world history.
  • Provides a comprehensive, global look at the history of the earth from the Paleolithic to the present era
  • Uses a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on the most recent research in geology, climatology, evolutionary biology, archaeology, anthropology, history, demography and the social and physical sciences
  • Each chapter expands on a single theme, including human evolution, the invention of agriculture and its global impact, population growth, urbanization, manufacturing, consumption, industrialization, and energy use
 

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An Evolving Earth
10
Evolving Humanity
34
Foraging Cultivating and Food Production
57
Diet Domestication
82
The Impact of Migration and Settlement on Global
89
The Making of an Urban World
108
Mining Making and Manufacturing
142
Industrial Work
172
Fossil Fuels Wind Water Nuclear
241
Energy from Coal
252
Energy from Oil
258
The Developing Worlds Demands for Energy
269
A Warming Climate
280
Epilogue
300
Notes
306
Index
331

Trade and Consumption
210
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Sobre el autor (2010)

Anthony N. Penna has taught at Carnegie-Mellon University and Northeastern University, where he has been teaching North American and Global Environmental history courses since 1990. He is the author of Nature's Bounty: Historical and Modern Environmental Perspectives (1999), a text on the impact of humans on forests, wildlife and wildlife habitat, and water and air quality in the continental United States since European exploration; and he is co-editor of the forthcoming Remaking Boston: An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings (2009).

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TítuloThe Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History
AutorAnthony N. Penna
Ediciónilustrada
EditorJohn Wiley & Sons, 2010
ISBN1405187727, 9781405187725
N.º de páginas354 páginas
  
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