Summary

This new edition of the acclaimed Man and Environmental Processes , comprised of chapters contributed by internationally respected researchers, reviews the effect of human activity on the entire range of environmental processes. Provides extensive, up-to-date coverage of human influence upon processes in the hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and geosphere and how it relates to questions of management. Material from the first edition has been substantially updated and revised, and four new chapters have been added which provide introductory coverage of the theme of human activity and environmental processes in oceans and lakes, and African vegetation and desertification.