Global Change in the Holocene
John Birks · Rick Battarbee · Anson Mackay · Frank Oldfield
Feb 2014 · Routledge
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The Holocene spans the 11,500 years since the end of the last Ice Age and has been a period of major global environmental change. However the rate of change has accelerated during the last hundred years, due largely to human impacts and this has led to a growing concern for the future of our environmental resources. Global Change in the Holocene demonstrates how reconstructing the record of past environmental change can provide us with essential knowledge about how our environment works and presents the reader with an informed viewpoint from which to project realistic future scenarios. The book brings together key techniques that are widely used in Holocene research, such as radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology and sediment analysis and offers a comprehensive analysis of various archives of environmental change including instrumental and documentary records, corals, lake sediments, glaciers and ice cores.
This reference will be an informative and cutting-edge resource for all researchers in the fields of climate change, environmental science, geography, palaeoecology and archaeology.
This reference will be an informative and cutting-edge resource for all researchers in the fields of climate change, environmental science, geography, palaeoecology and archaeology.
About the author
Anson Mackay is Lecturer in Environmental Change at University College London, UK
Rick Battarbee is Professor of Environmental Change at University College London, UK
John Birks is Professor in Quantitative Ecology & Palaeoecology at the University of Bergen, Norway and Ensis Professor of Quantitative Palaeoecology at University College London, UK
Frank Oldfield is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Liverpool, UK
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