People and Environment: A Global Approach

People and Physical Environment, A Global Approach provides an introduction to the main areas of environmental concern for geographers, environmental scientists and planners at the beginning of the twenty-first century. These include:

• Pollution of the atmosphere and its impact on our climate;
• The exploitation of the oceans;
• Management and supply of fresh water;
• Degradation of the land, and
• Biodiversity, and the need to maintain genetic diversity.

The book argues that our knowledge and u...