Earth System Science A Very Short Introduction

The concept of the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, soil, and rocks operating as a closely interacting system, involving geographers, geologists, biologists, oceanographers, and atmospheric physicists, is known as Earth System Science. In this Very Short Introduction, Tim Lenton considers how a world in which humans could evolve was created; how, as a species, we are now reshaping that world; and what a sustainable future for humanity within the Earth System might look like.