TY  - BOOK
AU  - Penna,Anthony N.
TI  - The human footprint: a global environmental history 
SN  - 9781118912461
AV  - GF13 .P46 2015
U1  - 304.2 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex, Chichester, West Sussexx
PB  - John Wiley & Sons
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - History
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Natural history
KW  - fast
KW  - Ökologie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Humanökologie
KW  - Klimaänderung
KW  - cct
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --; An evolving Earth --; Evolving humanity --; Foraging, cultivating, and food production --; Populating the Earth : diet, domestication, and disease --; The making of an urban world --; Mining, making, and manufacturing --; Industrial work --; Trade and consumption --; Fossil fuels and wind, water, nuclear, and solar energy --; A warming climate
N2  - Updated to reflect the most recent research, the second edition of The Human Footprint expands upon Anthony N. Penna's multidisciplinary global history of Earth from its beginnings to the present day. While initial chapters focus on "big history," placing human history within a cosmic framework, succeeding chapters reveal the great natural and human transformations that have shaped civilization over millennia; Using the most up-to-date research from geologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, historians, and others, individual chapters expand upon single topics within broader themes relating to Earth's history and human origins; mass migrations and the rise of agriculture; nutrition and population growth and the rise of cities, manufacturing, and industry; world trade, mass consumption, and new world ecology; modes of energy use; and more. New research into the world's warming climate serves to reinforce the fragile nature of world-human history interdependencies. Timely and essential, The Human Footprint provides illuminating insights into the future of our planet by revealing the interconnectedness of humans and nature throughout our past. --Book Jacket
ER  -