Our Changing Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science and Global Environmental Change

摘要: I. THE NATURAL SYSTEM. 1. Earth's Lithosphere: Geologic Time and Building Blocks. 2. Plate Tectonics. 3. The Fluid Earth: Atmosphere. 4. Hydrosphere. 5. Ecosphere. 6. Biogeochemical Cycles of Carbon, Nutrients, Oxygen. 7. Historical Framework Global Environmental Change. II. HUMAN DIMENSION. 8. World Population, Development, Resource Consumption. 9. Changing Earth Surface: Terrestrial Vegetation. 10. Land Water. 11. Atmosphere: Acid Deposition Photochemical Smog. 12. Pleistocene Holocene 13. Warming Stratospheric Ozone Depletion. 14. Human Dimensions Appendix A. Minerals. Answers to Study Questions. Glossary. References. Index.