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|a Goudie, Andrew S.
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|a The Human Impact on the Natural Environment
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|b Past, Present, and Future.
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|a Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface to the Seventh Edition -- About the Companion Website -- Part I: The Past and Present -- 1: Introduction -- The development of ideas -- The development of human population and stages of cultural development -- Hunting and gathering -- Humans as cultivators, keepers and metal workers -- Modern industrial and urban civilizations -- 2: The Human Impact on Vegetation -- Introduction -- The use of fire -- Fires: natural and anthropogenic -- Some consequences of fire suppression -- Some effects of fire on vegetation -- The role of grazing
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|a Deforestation -- Secondary rain forest -- The human role in the creation and maintenance of savanna -- The spread of desert vegetation on desert margins -- The maquis of the Mediterranean lands -- The prairies and other mid-latitude and high-altitude grasslands -- Post-glacial vegetational change in Britain and Europe -- Lowland heaths -- Introduction, invasion and explosion -- Air pollution and its effects on plants -- Forest decline -- Miscellaneous causes of plant decline -- The change in genetic and species diversity -- Conclusion: threats to plant life -- 3: Human Influence on Animals
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|a Domestication of animals -- Dispersal and invasions of animals -- Human influence on the expansion of animal populations -- Causes of animal contractions and decline: pollution -- Habitat change and animal decline -- Other causes of animal decline -- Animal extinctions in prehistoric times -- Modern-day extinctions -- 4: The Human Impact on the Soil -- Introduction -- Salinity: natural sources -- Human agency and increased salinity -- Irrigation salinity -- Dryland salinity -- Urban salinity -- Interbasin water transfers -- Coastal zone salinity -- Consequences of salinity
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|a Reclamation of salt-affected lands -- Lateritization -- Accelerated podzolization and acidification -- Some anthrosols resulting from agriculture and urbanization -- Soil carbon -- Soil structure alteration -- Soil drainage and its impact -- Soil fertilization -- Fires and soil quality -- Soil erosion: general considerations -- Soil erosion associated with deforestation and agriculture -- Accelerated wind erosion -- Soil erosion produced by fire -- Soil erosion associated with construction and urbanization -- Soil conservation -- 5: The Human Impact on the Waters -- Introduction
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|a Deliberate modification of rivers -- Urbanization and its effects on river flow -- Vegetation modification and its effect on river flow -- The human impact on lake levels -- Changes in groundwater conditions -- Water pollution -- Chemical pollution by agriculture and other activities -- Deforestation and its effects on water quality -- Thermal pollution -- Pollution with suspended sediments -- Marine pollution -- 6: Human Agency in Geomorphology -- Introduction -- Landforms produced by excavation -- Landforms produced by construction and dumping -- Sediment transport by rivers
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