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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | Environmental Change and Human Activity | 1 |
| 2 | Evidence for Environmental Change | 11 |
| Methodological considerations | 11 | |
| Dating of proxy records | 16 | |
| Fossil evidence | 23 | |
| Sedimentary evidence | 29 | |
| Isotopic evidence | 38 | |
| Historical evidence | 42 | |
| Instrumental records | 44 | |
| Assessment of proxy data sources | 46 | |
| 3 | Natural Environmental Change | 50 |
| Causes of long-term climatic change | 59 | |
| Patterns of short-term climatic change | 67 | |
| Causes of short-term climatic change | 72 | |
| 4 | Consequences of Climatic Change | 82 |
| The last glaciers in the northern temperate zone | 82 | |
| Perigalacial activity | 87 | |
| Sea-level change | 188 | |
| Vegetational and pedological changes | 95 | |
| Palaeohydrological changes | 101 | |
| 5 | The Impact of Environmental Change on People | 108 |
| Evolution and environmental change | 110 | |
| The origins of agriculture | 112 | |
| Coastal wetlands | 120 | |
| Volcanism | 132 | |
| Arid zone margins in the American south-west | 137 | |
| The Little Optimum and Little Ice Age | 140 | |
| 6 | The Impact of People on Environment | 147 |
| Late Pleistocene and Holocene extinctions | 148 | |
| Burning by hunter-gatherers | 154 | |
| Mesolithic forest clearance in the British Isles | 156 | |
| The transition to agriculture in central and north-west Europe | 158 | |
| The elm decline | 160 | |
| Clearance by early farmers | 164 | |
| Holocene pedogenesis | 173 | |
| Blanket bog formation | 174 | |
| The development of moorland and heathland | 177 | |
| The origins of grasslands | 183 | |
| Plant refugia in the wildwood | 185 | |
| 7 | People, Climate and Erosion | 187 |
| Processes and products of soil erosion | 187 | |
| Valley sediments: regional studies | 190 | |
| Aeolian sediments | 197 | |
| Lakes | 199 | |
| Spatial and temporal contrasts | 201 | |
| Erosion perception | 201 | |
| 8 | Conserving the Cultural Landscape | 203 |
| Palaeoenvironmental studies and nature conservation | 203 | |
| Cultural resource management | 205 | |
| Archaeological sites in their landscape | 206 | |
| A case for integrated conservation | 207 | |
| Presentation and experiment | 211 | |
| 9 | The Impact of People on Climate | 213 |
| The greenhouse effect | 213 | |
| Consequences of the greenhouse effect | 216 | |
| The ozone layer | 221 | |
| Acid rain | 222 | |
| 10 | Postscript | 224 |
| References | 226 | |
| Index | 263 |
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John Bingley
reviewed Late Quaternary environmental change on April 22, 2018
Late Quaternary environmental change
I read this a long time ago, and didn't find it easy to read, but oh! so very worthwhile when I finally made it to Europe and could see the places he was writing about. It really makes a difference when you are tramping through all those palaces when you understand the political purpose and symbolism behind the architecture and gardens.
I summarised each chapter as I read, but I'm not going to regurgitate that here. What I remember is all sorts of odd things - here's just one example: how the British nearly lost their war with France because they were a (fledgling) democracy: the barons cut down the royal forests for timber, and then when they needed trees with long straight trunks to make masts with, there weren't any left. The French had no such problem because their king ruled like a god and all his forests were intact.
Just writing this makes me want to read it again!
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