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An insightful and illuminating discussion of the impact humans have had on Earth

In A Primer on Human Impacts on the Environment: The Conceptual Approach, distinguished environmental scientist Liam Heneghan explores the intricate relationships between humanity and Earth in an accessible and engaging style. Replete with real-world examples and drawing from classic and contemporary scholarship, the author adapts the fundamental conceptual models of the environmental disciplines to assess the risks human beings are taking with their home planet. The conceptual approach of this primer challenges readers to think across multiple disciplines to reveal the ?big picture? that is all too often lost in the details of contemporary environmental studies.

Readers will also find:

  • A thorough introduction to conceptual modeling, showing how systems models can be adapted and applied in a rapidly changing world
  • Comprehensive explorations of the human impact on th

    Table of Contents

    Preface

    Chapter 1 A Manifesto for Conceptual Thinking in Environmental Disciplines

    Chapter 2 A Conceptual Approach to Environmental Science

    Chapter 3 A Short Chapter on the Definition of Definitions

    Chapter 4

    Everything is connected (but some things are more connected than are others)

    Chapter 5 Complex Environmental Systems

    Chapter 6 All or nothing? Or, what, exactly, is an environment?

    Chapter 7 Life and environment: the indissoluble link

    Chapter 8 Gaia, the Noösphere, and the Anthropocene

    Chapter 9 The Anthropocene and the Concept of Limits

    Chapter 10 Limited and limiting models

    Chapter 11 Collapse and the Anthropocene

    Chapter 12 How to conceive a (climate) crisis

    Chapter 13 Risking Life: Basics of Biological Diversity

    Chapter 14 Risking life: Is the Sixth Extinction Catastrophic?

    Chapter 15 Conceiving a Future: the need for interdisciplinarity

    Chapter 16 The Three Futures

    Index

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Publication Date: 13/04/2023
      ISBN13: 9781119642657, 978-1119642657
      ISBN10: 1119642655
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      An insightful and illuminating discussion of the impact humans have had on Earth

      In A Primer on Human Impacts on the Environment: The Conceptual Approach, distinguished environmental scientist Liam Heneghan explores the intricate relationships between humanity and Earth in an accessible and engaging style. Replete with real-world examples and drawing from classic and contemporary scholarship, the author adapts the fundamental conceptual models of the environmental disciplines to assess the risks human beings are taking with their home planet. The conceptual approach of this primer challenges readers to think across multiple disciplines to reveal the ?big picture? that is all too often lost in the details of contemporary environmental studies.

      Readers will also find:

      • A thorough introduction to conceptual modeling, showing how systems models can be adapted and applied in a rapidly changing world
      • Comprehensive explorations of the human impact on th

        Table of Contents

        Preface

        Chapter 1 A Manifesto for Conceptual Thinking in Environmental Disciplines

        Chapter 2 A Conceptual Approach to Environmental Science

        Chapter 3 A Short Chapter on the Definition of Definitions

        Chapter 4

        Everything is connected (but some things are more connected than are others)

        Chapter 5 Complex Environmental Systems

        Chapter 6 All or nothing? Or, what, exactly, is an environment?

        Chapter 7 Life and environment: the indissoluble link

        Chapter 8 Gaia, the Noösphere, and the Anthropocene

        Chapter 9 The Anthropocene and the Concept of Limits

        Chapter 10 Limited and limiting models

        Chapter 11 Collapse and the Anthropocene

        Chapter 12 How to conceive a (climate) crisis

        Chapter 13 Risking Life: Basics of Biological Diversity

        Chapter 14 Risking life: Is the Sixth Extinction Catastrophic?

        Chapter 15 Conceiving a Future: the need for interdisciplinarity

        Chapter 16 The Three Futures

        Index

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