Physical geography and topography

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

This comprehensive guidebook provides a detailed description of every official trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Das Eiszeitalter ist eine Zeit extremer Klimaschwankungen, die bis heute nicht beendet sind.

Freediver Timo Niessner zeigt in seinem Buch erprobte Atemtechniken und praktische Atemübungen, um endlich wieder richtig durchzuatmen, einen klaren Kopf zu bekommen, die eigene innere Kraft zu entfalten und so mit voller Power Beruf und Alltag zu meistern – auch in stürmischer See.

Originally published in this form in 1971, the content of this book was originally part of a larger composite volume 'Water, Earth and Man' (1969) which provided a synthesis of hydrology, geomorphology and socio-economic geography.

Freediver Timo Niessner zeigt in seinem Buch erprobte Atemtechniken und praktische Atemübungen, um endlich wieder richtig durchzuatmen, einen klaren Kopf zu bekommen, die eigene innere Kraft zu entfalten und so mit voller Power Beruf und Alltag zu meistern – auch in stürmischer See.

This book critically engages with how the conservation of tropical coral reefs is financed.

The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem.

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.

Coral Reefs of the USA provides a complete overview of the present status of knowledge regarding all coral reef areas within the USA and its territories.

Real Estate and GIS focuses on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping technologies in the expanding property and real estate discipline.

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

This book covers fluid dynamics and fluvial processes, including basics applicable to open channel flow followed by turbulence characteristics related to sediment-laden flows.

Gathering seashells is one of the delights of a beach trip; everyone knows the feeling of spotting something beautiful among a seemingly infinite array of colors and shapes dotting the shoreline.

This book breaks the ground in Geographical texts by transcending a strictly regional or topical focus.

Leo Houlding started climbing at ten years of age in the Lake District and was the youngest person (and first Briton) to free climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in the United States at eighteen years, which cemented his reputation.

Over the last five centuries, plantation crops have represented the best and worst of industrialized agriculture - "e;best"e; through their agronomic productivity and global commercial success, and "e;worst"e; as examples of exploitative colonialism, conflict and ill-treatment of workers.

This volume provides readers with the tools to unlock the potential of Earth observation (EO) technologies to transform coastal zone management.

In a context of disciplinary division between human and physical geography, the book seeks to reassert the unity of the field through an emphasis on a shared focus on the geographic configuration of things and how and why configuration is important.

This book represents the latest research on urban forestry in a Malaysian context.

"e;Wetlands"e; has become a hot word in the current environmental debate.

America's prairies are home to some of the most abundant and beautiful wildflowers in the country.

A state-of-the-art assessment of how geomorphology contributes to the comprehension, mapping and modelling of hazardous Earth surface processes.

Redwoods and Roses explores the special relationship California's diverse peoples have shared with nature and the unique gardens and landscapes they have created over the years to nurture and enhance those bonds.

The inaction of nation states and international bodies has posed significant risks to the environment.

The Gold Coast is a well-known and loved destination for local and international tourists, a city of surf and sun, pleasure and leisure.

Ecological restoration is a rapidly evolving discipline that is engaged with developing both methodologies and strategies for repairing damaged and polluted ecosystems and environments.

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.

Our North American forests are no longer the wild areas of past centuries; they are an economic and ecological resource undergoing changes from both natural and management disturbances.

This festschrift honours Prof.

Deserts appear very fascinating during our short visits.

Award-winning photographer Craig Varjabedian has spent decades photographing the many moods of the magnificent and ever-changing landscape of New Mexico's White Sands National Monument.

This book provides an overview of the GLOWA-Danube research project from 2001 to 2011, a transdisciplinary initiative which explores the future of water resources in the Upper Danube Basin.

The boreal forest is the northern-most woodland biome, whose natural history is rooted in the influence of low temperature and high-latitude.

This book describes the interdisciplinary work of USAID's Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) and its in uence on how food security crises are identi ed, documented and the kind of responses that result.

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.

The negotiation of the Canada-U.

Often featuring in lists of the world's best walks, the South West Coast Path is 630 miles long, and passes through two World Heritage Sites.

This book provides a detailed description of how Python can be used to give insight into the flow of groundwater based on analytic solutions.

First published in 1999 , the book is based on papers given at the final workshop of a research project into the evolution of environmental regulation in Poland undertaken as part of the UKs ERSC Global Environmental Change Programme.

A rare collection of photographs that are the heart of The Springs of Florida was obtained over a period of many years.

This book gives a comprehensive view of the strengths and limits of the interdisciplinary methods that work together to form the geohistorical approach to geographical and geological sciences.

In August 2007 a Russian flag was planted under the North Pole during a scientific expedition triggering speculation about a new scramble for resources beneath the thawing ice.

Presents the distinctive processes and characteristics of glaciovolcanic eruptions, with reference to terrestrial and Mars occurrences.

This book discusses how to collect data and analyze databases in order to map risk zones, and contributes to developing a conceptual framework for coastal risk assessment.

Lockhart and Wiseman's Crop Husbandry Including Grassland, Tenth Edition delivers the latest developments in crop varieties, crop protection products and environmental schemes.

Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures.