Physical geography and topography

This book describes an easy to apply methodology to determine the scenic value of a coast.

Looks at the question: do forests cool or warm the atmosphere and reduce global warming?

Dust storms, produced by the removal of surface materials from the world's drylands, are a vital component of the environment.

The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity.

First published in 1985.

The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees.

A research summary of the causes and effects of megaflooding on Earth and Mars, for hydrologists, planetary scientists and engineers.

This volume examines the impact of and responses to historic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the Azores.

Wie riecht Heimat?

'The perfect accompaniment to a year of forest walks'Gardens Illustrated 'Books of the Year'A seductive mix of science, history and culture'Tracy Chevalier'I love this book'Lauren Laverne, as featured on BBC Radio 6 MusicA wondrous seasonal journey through Britain and Ireland's trees.

This book outlines the transitions between cultured and natural land cover/vegetation types and their implications in the search for alternatives to reverse the trend of anthropogenic environmental degradation.

Why, despite two decades of climate policy, have affluent democracies made so little progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions?

How fossilized reefs hold clues to the survival of corals in the AnthropoceneWith rising global temperatures, pollution, overfishing, ocean acidification, and other problems caused by humans, there's no question that today's coral reefs are in trouble.

This book deals with the challenges for efficient groundwater management, with a focus on South Asia and India, providing a balanced presentation of theory and field practice using a multidisciplinary approach.

This book provides a critical examination of contemporary approaches to environmental regulation in the UK and the European Union.

The types of plants and animals that live on seashores in temperate regions are similar around the globe, but many of the individual species in south-eastern Australia are found only in this region.

This is a comprehensive, overarching, interdisciplinary book and a valuable contribution to a unified view of visualisation, imaging, and mapping.

Told for the very first time, this is the true story of the adventure that shaped the world .

This book, first published in 1987, contains a collection of papers presented at the 18th Binghamton Symposium, focusing on the topic of catastrophic flooding.

Recently, there has been, and continues to be, a tremendous interest on Lake Victoria and its environs, both locally and internationally.

Coral disease is quickly becoming a crisis to the health and management of the world s coral reefs.

Mathematical modelling has become an indispensable tool for engineers, scientists, planners, decision makers and many other professionals to make predictions of future scenarios as well as real impending events.

This edited volume summarizes information about the situational context, threats, problems, challenges and solutions for sustainable pastoralism at a global scale.

Governance of global water resources presents one of the most confounding challenges in contemporary natural resource governance.

Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable land.

Estuarine and coastal waters are acknowledged centres for anthropogenic impacts.

This book bridges the gap between economic and ecological theory and practice.

A lavish celebration of the seabirds of the British Isles.

The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently.

The North American Forests: Geography, Ecology, and Silviculture describes where, why, and how the many kinds of trees found on this continent grow in silvical associations - called forest cover types.

This book introduces what sclerotia grains are, and where and how they exist in soils, by compiling the results obtained from the studies on fungal sclerotia formed by Cenococcum geophilum (Cg) and related species, the visible black small grains persistent for a few thousand to ten thousands of years in forest soils and sediments.

There is a growing recognition of the contact we need with nature to be happy, healthy and to lead meaningful lives.

Whether their populations are perceived as too large, just right, too small or non-existent, animal numbers matter to the humans with whom they share environments.

A wealth of information.

This book highlights both the diversity of perspectives and approaches to Arctic research and the inherent interdisciplinary nature of studying and understanding this incomparable region.

This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene.

This book offers an introduction to remotely sensed image processing and classification in R using machine learning algorithms.

Meeting the targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires contributions by scientists focusing on understanding, monitoring, protecting, managing and restoring the natural environment, including geoscientists.

Over the past twenty years, geography as an academic discipline has become more and more reflective, asking the key questions 'What are we doing?

Dieses Lehrbuch will, von Beobachtungen und physikalischen Meßergebnissen ausgehend, das Verständnis der physikalischen Grundgesetze anschaulich vermitteln.

A classic for our times MONIQUE ROFFEY Haunting, beautiful Anima will live with me for a long time CAL FLYN'A book that mesmerises with its sense of adventure and epic sweep, this is creative non-fiction at its best' GUARDIANOver the course of one summer, Kapka Kassabova lives with perhaps the last true pastoralists in Europe.

This book provides an extensive overview of the diversity of soils in Georgia.

Our use or rather overuse of natural resources is having an increasingly drastic and adverse effect on the environment.

China and its neighbours face a series of water security issues, in which international law plays a vital role.

This re-issue, first published in 1964, is the first of a seminal series analysing the development of the study of landforms, from both the geographical and geological point of view, with especial emphasis upon fluvial geomorphology.

River Processes deals primarily with flow and sediment dynamics in alluvial channels.

This book focuses on regions for which until now the geomorphology was very poorly studied and relatively unknown.