Island environments in a changing world / Lawrence R. Walker, Peter Bellingham.
"Islands represent unique opportunities to examine human interaction with the natural environment. They capture the human imagination as remote, vulnerable and exotic, yet there is comparatively little understanding of their basic geology, geography, or the impact of island colonization by plan...
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction to island environments and cultures
- 2. The physical setting
- 3. Natural disturbances on islands
- 4. The plants and animals of islands
- 5. Human dispersal, colonization, and early environmental impacts
- 6. Intensifying human impacts on islands
- 7. Islands in the modern world: 1950-2000
- 8. The future of island ecosystems: remoteness lost.