Physical geography and topography

This book describes Sicily's unique and varied karst features, discussing the notable geographical areas, their lithology and genesis and, in a number of cases, their value as geosites to be preserved for scientific or tourism purposes.

This book draws upon the expertise of academic researchers, urban planners and architects to explore the challenge of building the sustainable cities of the future.

This undergraduate textbook presents a unique comprehensive overview on Mathematics in Earth Sciences and Geography.

This book is a comprehensive resource for climate change impacts and scenarios on cross-cutting issues in Bangladesh and other tropical low-lying countries in Asia.

This book examines the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity accounting within an applied development content  for Costa Rica.

This book analyses the regional complexes of climate security in the Pacific.

Climate change is as much a cultural phenomenon as it is a natural one.

This textbook introduces political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine land and environmental issues.

This book provides an original review of Ocean Literacy as a component of public policy in Europe and beyond.

This book examines in detail the health of India's Haora River, which is of vital importance as the lifeline of Agartala, the Capital City of Tripura.

This book examines how crop diversification strategies can help to ensure sustainable agricultural development across different land-size categories, with a focus on Malda District in West Bengal, India.

This book explores how the world community will respond to the unfolding humanitarian crisis caused by climate change.

This book presents studies on current vegetation topics, from polar to tropical regions.

This book is about how water managers in the United States are responding to the call for increased effort to achieve sustainable supplies of clean fresh water for present and future generations.

This book is a state-of-the-art review of the physical, chemical and mineralogical properties of anthropogenic soils, their genesis morphology and classification, geocultural setting, and strategies for reclamation, revitalization, use and management.

This edited book provides a comprehensive overview of the past, present and future climate development in Poland.

This is a comprehensive regional geography synthesis of the most important physical and human spatial processes that shaped Serbia and led to many interesting regional issues, not only to Serbia but to the Balkans and Europe.

This book interrogates the impact of tourism on local lives and environments along the southern Pacific Coast of Nicaragua.

This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way.

This book presents an interdisciplinary study of Lake Cuejdel, one of the youngest natural dam lakes in Romania.

This handbook is recognition of the need to better integrate physical and human geography.

Featuring the previously unpublished diary of Jose Maria Sobral, Under-Lieutenant of the Argentine Navy, this book provides insight on his life and his participation in Otto Nordenskjold's Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1903.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the practice of sustainability through a diverse range of case studies spanning across varied fields and areas of expertise.

This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete physical geography of Georgia in English.

This book investigates water resources management and policy in China over the last two decades with a core focus on the role of water for socioeconomic development and sustainability.

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

This book argues that sustainable development, based on sustained growth, has led us to an impasse.

This book gives the most detailed and comprehensive insights into the morphology, morphometry and dynamics of glaciers in the Georgian Caucasus region up to date.

This book addresses the various factors affecting fluvial systems, the processes governing them, system responses arising from human-nature interventions, and geospatial and geo-ecological modeling to understand system behaviour better and restore degraded ecosystems around the globe.

Significant progress has been made by industrial countries to reduce emissions from the use of fossil fuels, but as the economies of the less-developed regions of the world begin to expand, they too will face similar challenges.

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

This book intends to identify and publicize the unique features of Austrian geomorphology.

This book asks how we are to understand the relationship between capitalism and the environment, capitalism and food, and capitalism and social resistance.

This book re-conceptualizes energy justice as a unifying agenda for scholars and practitioners working on the issues faced in the trilemna of energy security, poverty and climate change.

The floristic studies carried out during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Retezat Massif identified 1,152 plant species and 104 subspecies within the Cormobionta sub-regnum.

This book describes the urgent challenge faced by cities worldwide to become resilient to climate change impacts.

The use of small unoccupied aerial systems (sUAS) for acquiring close-range remotely sensed data has substantially increased in the past 5 years.

Unknown to most people, there are innumerable microbial species that accomplish vital ecosystem functions while residing in a suspended state in the troposphere or resting on crop canopies.

This book focuses on the vegetation history of the cultural landscape in southwestern Slovakia, which was established and adopted by mankind and has since constantly evolved in response to ongoing changes (in environmental conditions, biodiversity, land use, etc.

This book gives the most detailed and comprehensive physico-geographical overview of the very unique country of Mongolia.

This book is a sociological account of the historical trajectory of feed-in tariffs (FITs) as an instrument for the promotion of renewable energy in Europe.

This book presents extensive and new information on the Cenozoic marine and continental systems of one of the most important World Heritage sites of Southern South America: The Peninsula Valdes.

This book offers comprehensive information on the theory, models and algorithms involved in state-of-the-art multivariate time series analysis and highlights several of the latest research advances in climate and environmental science.

The book focuses on the human and social effects of the construction of hydroelectric dams in Brazil.

This monograph summarizes the environmental issues concerning the channel and the floodplain of the Drava River.

This book provides a comprehensive description of the landscape-ecological planning system LANDEP, and introduces the methodical procedure.

This book discusses a variety of different  perspectives involved in biodiversity management and bio-sequestration projects in Australia, working towards achieving adaptive governance in carbon farming.

This edited collection explores how narratives about the future of the Arctic have been produced historically up until the present day.

This book provides a critical review of global environmental governance as part of the broader process of sustainably transforming modern society.

This book describes and comprehensively illustrates the soils of the world in accordance with the worldwide WRB classification.