TY - GEN AU - Whyte, Ian TI - World without end: environmental disaster and the collapse of empires SN - 9781845110550 U1 - 304.28 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - I.B. Tauris KW - Human ecology KW - Global environmental change KW - Disasters--Social aspects N1 - Environmental change and human response in perspective : the last 12,000 years -- Environmental systems and processes -- Hunters and hunter-gatherers -- Early agricultural societies -- Early civilisations and empires -- Medieval and early modern societies -- Modern developed societies -- The modern less developed world -- Postscript: Environmental change in the future ER -