Physical geography and topography

Explore the beauty of the Lake District dales with this enchanting and absorbing guide.

Mit dem zweibändigen Werk liegt das erste deutschsprachige Lehrbuch zur Geographiedidaktik vor, welches konkret zum kreativen und praxistauglichen Verknüpfen von fachwissenschaftlichen und fachdidaktischen Bezügen anregt.

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.

First Published in 2002.

First Published in 2002.

This book will provide a comprehensive discussion of groundwater sustainability, including what it is, how its definition has changed over time, why traditional assessments of it are wrong, how assessments of it are ideally multidisciplinary efforts recognizing that policy is more controlling of outcomes than science, and why achieving it is difficult once pumping exceeds sustainable levels of pumping.

This book presents an introduction to desert landscapes-primarily landforms that are natural and man-made.

This richly illustrated Element presents many useful tips and tricks to both novices and experts in mapping and planning.

The aim of this book is to provide a synthesis of the newest research in Geography concerning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's).

What is involved in restoring a river?

A thorough and detailed resource that describes the history, culture, and geography of the Himalayan region, providing an indispensable reference work to both general readers and seasoned scholars in the field.

This highly illustrated volume is a compendium of evidence and examples of change on Heard Island, a World Heritage Site near Antarctica and one of the most remote places on earth.

Many informal organisations around the world are making a positive impact on the environment and their communities by turning waste into a resource, increasing the social capacity of their community and reducing the amount of pollution in their environment.

100 delightful walks that reveal hidden treasures in our countryside - secret beaches, abandoned villages, mysterious caves, hidden waterfalls.

The Western Shores of Turkey is the distillation of a succession of journeys that John Freely made along this coast - an odyssey spanning a quarter of a century.

  This book explores the broad trajectory of the Holocene epoch in a region defined as the North Atlantic Polar Triangle (NAPT).

  This book explores the broad trajectory of the Holocene epoch in a region defined as the North Atlantic Polar Triangle (NAPT).

Trees are crucial in preserving a liveable future.

Die Zukunft liegt in unseren HändenSpringende Flussdelfine, himmelhohe Baumriesen, Hausboote auf dem Amazonas: Rund um die Stadt Manaus wartet der Dschungel.

This volume contains 22 chapters introducing a wide range of semi-arid and geologic landscapes.

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

This edited volume focuses on the use of remote sensing techniques to assess and monitor mountainous ecosystems in Africa, with a focus on tracking changes related to climate change and human activity.

This Encyclopedia is designed to accumulate and systematize our knowledge about the unique natural water areas - the Barents, White and Kara seas, their wealth, the events that took place on its waters and shores, and the remarkable people whose lives were and are closely intertwined with the seas.

This textbook is a complete, up-to-date, and highly illustrated account of Structural Geology for students and professionals, and includes fundamentals of the subject with field and practical aspects.

The edited book deals with climate change and its response to river system which is one of the most burning issues of the Global environment.

This book provides insight into how governments are using a variety of innovative fiscal and non-fiscal instruments to develop circular economies with significant economic and environmental benefits.

This book reconciles competing and sometimes contradictory forms of land use, while also promoting sustainable land use options.

The past half century has seen an evolution in thinking from 'flood control' to 'flood risk management', recognizing that risk results from both hazard and vulnerability.

This book describes the existential threats facing the global water systems from population growth and economic development, unsustainable use, environmental change, and weak and fragmented governance.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of pedology in Ireland.

This study focuses on impacts of the environmental and socio-economic transformation on the indigenous people's livelihoods in Vietnam's Central Highlands recent decades since the country's reunification in 1975.

Er fuhr als erster Mensch auf Skiern vom Everest und bezwang fast alle Achttausender.

Water scarcity is not simply the result of what nature has to offer but always involves power relations and political decisions.

Over the last decade the concept of clustering has become a central idea for analyzing the competitiveness of nations, industries and firms.

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research.

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

This book conceptualizes community nutrition resilience as a critical area that is currently lacking the attention it requires from both the public and private sectors.

The Natura 2000 network of protected areas is the centrepiece of European Union nature policy, currently covering almost one-fifth of the EU's entire land territory plus large marine areas.

This book is dedicated to the study of the islands and their role in a globalised world.

This book addresses societal relationships to river systems, highlighting many unexplored possibilities in how we know and manage our rivers.

This book offers an introduction to the soils of Aotearoa New Zealand, structured according to the New Zealand soil classification system.

This book is useful to those in water resources management and policy formulations, hydrologists, environmentalists, engineers and researchers.

Wetlands are an important, and sadly diminishing, habitat in many parts of the world.

This book presents an overview and knowledgeable on water resources management in Balkan countries - Slovenia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Greece, and Bulgaria.

This book analyses climate change influences on rainfall erosivity and soil erosion across Central Asia, provides an overview (past and projections) on the Central Asian countries where projected changes in rainfall erosivity and erosivity density are the greatest, and discusses the potential impacts on the environment across the region.

This book provides an analytical discussion of the status of disaster risk reduction and governance in an Indian context, drawing examples and lessons from the output of the national and regional level programs and projects and from other relevant experiences in the country.

Joachim Rathmann presents the interdisciplinary relationships between landscapes and health.

This book offers a conceptual framework for the critical understanding of the present socio-environmental conflicts.