Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet Under PressureWilliam L. Steffen, Peter Tyson |
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... recent , they are profound , and many are accelerating . They are cascading through the Earth's environment in ways that are difficult to understand and often impossible to predict . Surprises abound . At least , these human - driven ...
... recent , they are profound , and many are accelerating . They are cascading through the Earth's environment in ways that are difficult to understand and often impossible to predict . Surprises abound . At least , these human - driven ...
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... recent years a global perspective has begun to emerge that forms the framework for a growing body of research within ... recently , much of the understanding about how the Earth operates was applied to only pieces ( subcomponents ) of ...
... recent years a global perspective has begun to emerge that forms the framework for a growing body of research within ... recently , much of the understanding about how the Earth operates was applied to only pieces ( subcomponents ) of ...
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A Planet Under Pressure William L. Steffen, Peter Tyson. The recent human influence on the carbon cycle Thousands of years Figure 2 Atmospheric CO2 concentration from the Vostok ice core record with the recent human perturbation ...
A Planet Under Pressure William L. Steffen, Peter Tyson. The recent human influence on the carbon cycle Thousands of years Figure 2 Atmospheric CO2 concentration from the Vostok ice core record with the recent human perturbation ...
Contents
An Integrated Earth System | 4 |
The Anthropocene | 11 |
Living with Global Change | 19 |
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