A history of technology and environment : froms stone tools to ecological crisis / Edward L. Golding.
London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, c2017Description: ix, 271 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781138685857 (hbk)
- 9781138685864 (pbk)
- 9781315542959 (ebk)
- 609 .G619 2017
- T14.5 .G635 2017
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Includes index
"This book provides an accessible overview of the ways that key areas of technology have impacted global ecosystems and natural communities. It offers a new way of thinking about the overall origins of environmental problems. Combining approaches drawn from environmental biology and the history of science and technology, it describes the motivations behind many technical advances and the settings in which they occurred, before tracing their ultimate environmental impacts. It describes the four broad areas of human activity:
- over-harvesting of natural resources using the examples of
hunting, fishing and freshwater use;
- farming, population, land use, and migration;
- discovery, synthesis and use of manufactures chemicals; and
- development of sources of artificial energy and the widespread pollution caused by power generation and energy use." --Publisher's description
Adult
Text in English
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