Changing Planet: What Is the Environmental Impact of Human Migration and Settlement?

by Sally Morgan

Book Overview

This interesting book examines how human migration and settlement has affected planet Earth. From the earliest times humans have shaped and changed the landscape. The book will provides many historical and modern-day examples of changes to our planet caused by migration and settlement. As people need more land for farming and to build towns and cities, natural habitats and wilderness areas are destroyed. In countries such as India and China the urbanization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0778751791
• ISBN13: 9780778751793
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Crabtree Classics
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9