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Climate change is regarded as a fundamental aspect of enviromental study. This book examines the significance of climate as one of the major forcing funtions in in the global environmental change process. It emphasizes both human-induced and natural climatic change.

This work presents the hydrological contribution to, and consequence of, global environment change. Assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, the work looks at the processes of global environmental change - global scale processes, and large regional processes, for example.

Posing the questions which underlie the many-sided debate of how to respond to and influence change, this text covers both scientific and sociological aspects of ecosystem management. It also includes discussion of the response of soils and vegetation to human impact.