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The Great Acceleration : An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 /
The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age-the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet's biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. The Great Acceleration explains the causes, consequences, and uncertainties o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age-the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet's biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. The Great Acceleration explains the causes, consequences, and uncertainties of this massive uncontrolled experiment. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (288 p.) : 12 halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph, 6 tables |
| ISBN: | 9780674970731 9783110485103 9783110485189 9783110665901 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |