Global Change and the Earth System A Planet Under Pressure /

• Main Authors: Steffen, Will (Author), Sanderson, Angelina (Author), Tyson, Peter (Author), Jäger, Jill (Author), Matson, Pamela (Author), Moore, Berrien (Author), Oldfield, Frank (Author), Richardson, Katherine (Author), Schellnhuber, H. John (Author), Turner, B. L. (Author), Wasson, Robert J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Global Change — The IGBP Series,
• Subjects: Environment.; Geobiology.; Atmospheric sciences.; Climate change.; Ecotoxicology.; Air pollution.; Climate Change.; Biogeosciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.

The interactions between environmental change and human societies have a long, complex history spanning many millennia, but these have changed fundamentally in the last century. Human activities are now so pervasive and profound that they are altering the Earth in ways which threaten the very life s...

Table of Contents:

• An Integrated Earth System
• Planetary Machinery: The Dynamics of the Earth System Prior to Significant Human Influence
• The Anthropocene Era: How Humans are Changing the Earth System
• Reverberations of Change: The Responses of the Earth System to Human Activities
• Living with Global Change: Consequences of Changes in the Earth System for Human Well-Being
• Towards Earth System Science and Global Sustainability.