Environmental Transformations: A Geography of the Anthropocene

Book Details
• Author: Mark Whitehead
• Brand: Routledge
• Edition: Illustrated
• Binding: Paperback
• Format: Illustrated
• Number of Pages: 176
• Release Date: 13-06-2014
• EAN: 9780415809849
• Package Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.3 x 0.4 inches
• Language: English

• From the depths of the oceans to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, the human impact on the environment is significant and undeniable, marking the arrival of the Anthropocene—a new geological epoch shaped by human actions.
• Combines scientific concepts like the carbon cycle, global heat balances, hydrology, and ecology with social theories including demography, industrial capitalism, urban development, and behavioral psychology.
• Explores the role of geography and geographers in studying environmental change and its human drivers.
• Reviews critical theories to uncover socio-economic and political factors influencing environmental change.
• Discusses key environmental issues such as resource use, water scarcity, climate change, industrial pollution, and deforestation, using geographical case studies.
• Highlights uneven geographical opportunities for adaptation and raises questions of social justice related to environmental change.
• Encourages engagement with scientific uncertainties surrounding environmental transformations in the 21st century.