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Earth system science : a very short introduction / Tim Lenton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Very short introductions ; 464.Publisher: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 153 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780198718871 (pbk.)
  • 019871887X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QE 26.3 L5494 2016
Online resources: Summary: The concept of the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, soil, and rocks operating as a closely interacting system has rapidly gained ground in science. This new field, involving geographers, geologists, biologists, oceanographers, and atmospheric physicists, is known as Earth system science. This introductory text considers how a world in which humans could evolve was created; how, as a species, we are now reshaping that world; and what a sustainable future for humanity within the Earth system might look like. Drawing on elements of geology, biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics, it also asks whether Earth system science can help guide us onto a sustainable course before we alter the Earth system to the point where we destroy ourselves and our current civilisation.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-145) and index.

The concept of the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, soil, and rocks operating as a closely interacting system has rapidly gained ground in science. This new field, involving geographers, geologists, biologists, oceanographers, and atmospheric physicists, is known as Earth system science. This introductory text considers how a world in which humans could evolve was created; how, as a species, we are now reshaping that world; and what a sustainable future for humanity within the Earth system might look like. Drawing on elements of geology, biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics, it also asks whether Earth system science can help guide us onto a sustainable course before we alter the Earth system to the point where we destroy ourselves and our current civilisation.-- Source other than Library of Congress.

Lenton, T. (2016). Earth system science : a very short introduction. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press.

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