Man's role in changing the face of the earth / edited by William L. Thomas, with the collaboration of Carl O. Sauer, Marston Bates, Lewis Mumford.

• Vol. 1 -- Our world from the air: conflict and adaptation / E. A. Gutkind -- Part I. Retrospect -- Man's tenure of the earth -- The agency of man on the Earth / Carl. O. Sauer -- Changing ideas on the habitable world / Clarence J. Glacken -- Cultural differences in the interpretation of natural resources / AlexanderSpoehr -- The antiquity and world expansion of human culture / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- Through the corridors of time -- Fire as the first great force employed by man / Omer C. Stewart -- Early food-producing populations / Karl J. Narr -- The hydraulic civilizations / Karl. A. Wittfogel -- Effects of classical antiquity on the land / Fritz M. Heichelheim -- The clearing of the woodlands in Europe / H. C. Darby -- The ecology of peasant life in Western Europe / E. Estyn Evans -- The quality of peasant living in Central Europe / Gottfried Pfeiffer -- On the role of nature and man in changing the face of the dry belt of Asia / Hermann von Wissman, H. Poech, G. Smolla and F. Kussmaul -- Changes in climate, vegetation, and human adjustment in the Saharo-Arabian belt, with special references to Africa / Soliman Huzayyin -- Introduction to the subsistence economy of India / E. K. Janaki Ammal -- The quality of land use of tropical cultivators / Pierre Gourou -- The grassland of North America: its occupance and challenge of continous reappraisals / James C. Malin -- The age of fossil fuels / Eugene Ayres -- The natural history of urbanization / Lewis Mumford -- Symposium discussion: retrospect -- Man's tenure of the Earth -- Subsistence economies -- Commercial economies -- Industrial revolution and urban dominance. 
• Vol. 2 -- Part II. Process -- Introductory -- Environmental changes through forces independent of man / Richard J. Russell -- The processes of environmental change by man / Paul B. Sears -- Man's effects on the seas and waters of the land -- Harvests of the seas / Michael Graham -- Influences of man upon coast lines / John H. Davis -- Man's ports and channels / Lester E. Klimm -- Changes in quantities and qualities of ground and surface waters / Harold E. Thomas -- Alterations of climatic elements -- Modification of rural microclimates / C. W. Thornthwaite -- The climate of towns / H. E. Landsberg -- Artificially induced precipitation and its potentiaslities / Vincent J. Schaefer -- Slope and soil changes through human use -- The nature of induced erosion and aggradation / Arthur N. Strahler -- Land use and sediment yield / Luna B. Leopold -- Physical, chemical, and biochemical changes in the soil community / William A. Albrecht -- Modifications of biotic communities -- The re-creative power of plant communities / Edward H. Graham -- Fire, primitive agriculture, and grazing in the tropics / H. H. Bartlett -- The modification of mid-latitude grasslands and forests by man / John T. Curtis -- The impact of exotic invasion on the remaining new world mid-latitude grasslands / Andrew H. Claek -- Man as maker of new plants and new plant communities / Edgar Anderson -- Man's ecological dominance through domesticated animals on wild lands / F. Fraser Darling -- Man as agent in the spread of organisms / Marston Bates -- Ecology of wastes -- Disposal of man's wastes / bel Wolman -- Sanitation practises and disease control in extending and improving areas for human habitation / A. Leslie Banks and J. A. Hislop -- Effects of fission material on air, soil, and living species / John C. Bugher -- Urban-industrial demands upon the land -- Man's selective attack on ores and minerals / Donald H. McLaughlin -- The role of transportation and the bases for interaction / Edward L. Ullman -- The pressure of residential-industrial land use / Chauncy D. Harris -- Recreational land use / Artur Glikson -- Symposium discussion: Process -- Changes in physical phenomena -- Changes in biological communities -- Techniques of learning: their limitations and fit -- Part III. Prospect -- Limits of man and the Earth -- The time scale in human affairs / Sir Charles D. Darwin -- The spiral of population / Warren S. Thompson -- Possible limits of raw material consumption / Samuel H. Ordway, jr. -- Limitations to energy use / Charles A. Scarlott -- Technological denudation / Harrison Brown -- The role of man -- Influence of man upon nature: the Russian view: a case study / Albert E. Burke -- Man's relation to the Earth in its bearing on his aesthetic, ethical, and legal values / F. S. C. Northrop -- Symposium discussion: Prospect -- Limits of the earth: materials and ideas -- Man's self-transformation -- The unstable equilibrium of man in nature -- Part IV. Summary remarks -- Summary remarks -- Retrospect / Carl O. Sauer -- Process / Marston Bates -- Prospect / Lewis Mumford. 

Ämnesord

Human ecology  -- Congresses (LCSH)

Kulturgeografi  -- Komngresser (sao)

Klassifikation

304.2 (DDC)

Uhb (kssb/8)