Physical geography and topography

Pirates and smugglers, ghost ships and sea-serpents, fishermen s prayers and sailors rituals the coastline of the British Isles plays host to an astonishingly rich variety of local legends, customs, and superstitions.

The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things--from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from migrating butterflies to flying squirrels, and from brawny black bears to more species of salamander than anywhere else in the world.

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur.

Drylands have been cradles to some of the world's greatest civilizations, and contemporary dryland communities feature rich and unique cultures.

In 1984, when this book was originally published the need to take forestry outside the forests and involve local people in tree growing was widely recognised.

This book brings together in compact form a broad scientific and sociopolitical view of US wetlands.

This timely book is about how to design alternatives to reduce coastal flood and wave damage, erosion, and loss of ecosystems facing an unknown future of sea level rise.

The global attention in recent years has focused primarily on water quantity and allocation issues.

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.

From an historical perspective, this text presents an entirely non- mathematical introduction to astronomy from the first endeavours of the ancients to the current developments in research enabled by cutting edge technological advances.

This book comprehensively discusses the role that non-state actors play in the Arctic and assesses the normative role of these actors.

In this comprehensive book, the critical components of the European landscape - forest, parkland, and other grazed landscapes with trees are addressed.

Inland sand dunes are widespread in North America and are found from the North Slope of Alaska to the Sonoran Desert in northern Mexico and from the Delmarva Peninsula in the east to Southern California in the west.

This book offers new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably.

First Published in 2002.

Fully updated new edition features a new introductory chapter and more end-of-chapter questions, guiding students to a mastery of petrology.

This edited book will bring together a collection of works that comprehensively address the various landforms of Israel and how their evolution has been shaped over time by multiple geomorphic agents.

This book describes thoroughly the North American Climate of the past 65 million years, with special emphasis on the last 21,000 years, as revealed by paleoclimatic observations and climate models.

This book provides an overview of arid and semi-arid lands conditions, their general characteristics, methods of management, conservation, exploitation and reclamation.

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.

The most visited site in the National Park system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina.

Volume 2 of the book 'Sand Dunes of the Northern Hemisphere' is sub-titled Characteristics, Dynamics and Provenance of Sand Dunes in the Northern Hemisphere.

Combining memoir and studies in the Environmental Humanities, Black Swan Song weaves together an autobiographically-based account of the unique life and work of Rod Giblett.

Effective spatial analysis is an essential element of archaeological research; this book is a unique guide to choosing the appropriate technique, applying it correctly and understanding its implications both theoretically and practically.

Describing the natural state of eight important lakes in Asia and the human impact on these lake ecosystems, this book offers a valuable reference guide.

This book deals with the introduction of a new type of "e;spatial measures"e; in flood governance.

This SpringerBrief brings together a series of studies that delve into the details of French and Israeli green building practices and tell a tale of two countries which deviates considerably from what first impressions might suggest.

The Broads discusses the history of the Broads, the people who come into contact with and influence these waterways, and what the future holds.

This book highlights various aspects of geochemical and geological processes.

For thousands of years, humans have found themselves vulnerable to plagues of desert locusts.

This book represents the first comprehensive edition, in English, on the soils of Brazil, in the challenge of illustrating all the biomes of a country of truly continental dimension.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of climate change-related investigations carried out by Indian researchers through initiatives in southern high latitude regions.

This book focuses on validation and reconstruction work on the land surface temperature (LST) products retrieved by thermal infrared remote sensing.

Offering all aspects of humidity measurement and instrumentation, this work includes rudiments and theory, common applications, advantages and limitations of frequently-used sensors and techniques, and guidelines for installation, maintenance and calibration.

Originally published in 1994, this book analysed land developments, deforestation and pasture substitution, colonisation schemes and spontaneous settlement during the latter part of the 20th Century.

This book guides readers through the most iconic, geologically significant scenery in South America, points out features of interest, and describes how these features came to be.

This unique treatment of geomorphology, first published in 1986, provides a comprehensive work to enable students to see the subject as a whole.

The generation of offshore energy is a rapidly growing sector, competing for space in an already busy seascape.

This book focuses on the problems of the Quaternary in South America and Antarctic Peninsula, with a strong emphasis in the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic approach.

Organizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in Canada's resource-dependent economy.

This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia''s deserts, exploring the cultural and environmental history of these drylands.

Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, this volume reflects on the political, institutional and social factors that have shaped the recent expansion of wind energy, and to consider what lessons this experience may provide for the future expansion of other renewable technologies.

This book describes the challenges for the natural environments and local communities in the future.

Experimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement provides a set of practical procedures to follow when planning, designing and analysing tree improvement trials.

A new 'Multi-Coloured Manual' This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment Agency.

Covering 71 percent of the planet, these saline bodies of water provided the unique conditions necessary for the building blocks of life to form billions of years ago.

This book presents a range of academic research and personal reflections on the Gorkha earthquake that struck Nepal in 2015.

Madagascar is one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet, the result of 160 million years of isolation from the African mainland.