The North Atlantic Polar Triangle: Documenting The End of an Epoch

This book aims to understand the end of the Holocene in the North Atlantic Polar Triangle (NAPT), and explores the post Ice Age physical, ecological and cultural history of the NAPT and its bordering regions. The text is multi-disciplinary and synthetic, and focuses on an area that extends from the North Pole to the Equator, and covers 60 degrees of longitude, encompassing the entire North Atlantic and significant parts of the land-masses that surround it. The book outlines the long-term changing relationships between environmental processes and humans within this single space, providing insight into the broader and more complex interactions happening globally. The author proposes, on the basis of the changes that can be documented in the NAPT, probable trajectories of change in other equally complex but less well-documented, and less geographically constrained earth systems, such as the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Circumpolar Ocean, and the Eurasian Continent. The book will make a substantive contribution to the ongoing discussion of human transformation of the world, and the current debate about the designation of a new Geological epoch, the Anthropocene. The intended audience includes physical geographers, anthropologists and readers exploring the synthetic analyses of the crisis humans currently confront as the world enters a period of extraordinary change.