Are we humans destroying the environments in which we live, or is environmental
change inevitable and natural? How has the relationship between human societies
and environments changed since pre-history? Will human population growth outpace
the available resources of land and water? Is global warming and climate change
already out of control? What can economic and political models tell us about
international development? Changing Environments takes a broad,
interdisciplinary approach to such questions, drawing on ideas from science,
technology, social science and humanities to examine how and why environments
change as a result of natural and human-mediated processes. It draws on examples
from around the world, and includes consideration