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Readership: Intermediate and advanced geography, geology, and environmental science undergraduates. Also of use to environmental studies students with an interest in environmental change.
David E. Anderson, Geography teacher, Eton College; Senior Research Associate, Oxford Centre for the Environment and Outreach Officer, Quaternary Research Association, Andrew S. Goudie, Master of St Cross College, Oxford, and Professor of Geograhy, Oxford Centre for the Environment,, and Adrian G. Parker, Reader in the Department of Anthropology and Geography, Oxford Brookes University.
"Overall, this is an excellent all-round textbook on environmental change. It is well worth a purchase - essential for libraries - and is a welcome addition to the Quaternary literature." - Geological Magazine, 2008
1: A framework for understanding environmental change 2: Sources of evidence for reconstructing past environments 3: Pleistocene climatic change and environments of mid- to high latitudes 4: Pleistocene environments of low latitudes 5: Environmental change in post-glacial times 6: Environmental change during the period of meteorological records 7: Sea-level changes of the Quaternary 8: Links between environmental change and human evolution and society 9: The causes of climatic change
