The Changing Global Environment

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms.

Preface and Acknowledgements.

Part I: The Nature of Environmental Change:.

1. The Global Environmental Future: Neil Roberts.

2. Remote Sensing of Environmental Change: Roy Haines-Young.

Part II: Global Climate Change: .

3. Past Climates and Future Greenhouse Warming: F. Alayne Street-Perrott and Neil Roberts.

4. Historic Records and Recent Climatic Change: Mike Hulme.

5. Numerical Modelling of Global Climate: Ann Henderson-Sellers.

Part III: Ice and Ocean:.

6. Global Warming and Periglacial Landscapes: Eduard A. Koster.

7. Ice Volumes and Climate Change: David Sugden and Nick Hulton.

8. Sea-level Response to Climate: Michael J. Tooley.

9. Tropical Coral Islands - An Uncertain Future?: Tom Spencer.

Part IV: The Hydrological System:.

10. Surface Water Acidification: Richard W. Battarbee.

11. Reconstructing the History of Soil Erosion: John Dearing.

12. Large-scale River Regulation: Geoff Petts.

Part V: The Tropics:.

13. Savanna Landscapes and Global Environmental Change: Philip Stott.

14. Tropical Moist Forests - Transformation or Conservation?: Peter A. Furley.

15. Land Degradation in the Humid Tropics: Ian Douglas.

16. Dryland Degradation: Andrew Goudie.

Part VI: Case Studies of Human Impact:.

17. Case 1: Changing Use of the Sahara Desert: Erhard Schulz.

18. Case 2: The Chesapeake Bay Estuarine System: Grace S. Brush.

19. Case 3: China's Yellow River Basin: Edward Derbyshire and Jingtai Wang.

20. Case 4: Deforestation in the Himalaya: Martin J. Haigh.

Bibliography.

Index.