Physical geography and topography

Terrestrial mass movements (i.

INTRODUCED BY ADAM WEYMOUTH, award-winning author of The Kings of Yukon'A wonderful book -- and a highly original contribution to the literature of travel' PAUL THEROUX'The Mississippi.

This book addresses the environmental challenges that Libya and similar countries in the regions are currently facing.

As coastal populations burgeon, problems of erosion, pollution and coastal change are becoming ever more serious and necessitate scientifically informed management strategies.

Provides a comparative approach to plant succession among all terrestrial biomes and disturbances, helping to reveal generalizable patterns.

The present review of weather-satellite systems, data, and environmental applications encompasses the evolution of space-based weather observation, national observing capabilities, sensor data and processing, climate and meteorological applications, applications to land, agriculture, and ocean sciences, and some future directions.

Hans Florine embodies the genius of andcollaborative and competitive, fast and safe, audacious and disciplined, visionary and quantitative.

In his introduction, Don MacCaskill wrote modestly, 'I think I became a naturalist'.

Oceanic Migration studies the prehistoric peopling of the Pacific.

„Texte zum Sprechen bringen“ - dies erfordert philologische Genauigkeit ebensowohl wie interpretatorischen Weitblick, beides Tugenden, die Paul Sappler in hervorragendem Maße auszeichnen.

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

The Geologic Time Scale 2012, winner of a 2012 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Best Multi-volume Reference in Science from the Association of American Publishers, is the framework for deciphering the history of our planet Earth.

This book, first published in 1965, was the first by a British soil expert in which he wrote a study of his subject from a geographical, not an agricultural or biological, viewpoint.

This book unveils how the world in the twenty-first century will need to manage our most fundamental resource need, water.

This book presents a geographical survey of the Netherlands, reviewing recent and historic developments that made the nation.

Originally published in 1975 and in a second edition in 1980, Plant Geography was the first text in biogeography that provided an adequate treatment of modern plant population theory.

Intense uplift of the Tibetan Plateau in Late Cenozoic Era is one of the most important events in geological history of the Earth.

Este libro es una invitación a conocer, estudiar, adentrarse en lageografía de Colombia.

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.

This book discusses land degradation in India using statistical tools such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Regression Analysis (RA), and uses statistical analyses and graphical representations of the causal relationship between land degradation and land productivity to determine linkages with deforestation, climate change and agricultural productivity.

This edited collection, first published in 1987, provides a comparative analysis of different approaches to urban modelling, and lays the foundations for the possibility of integration and a more unified field.

The Nile River and its basin extend over a distinctive geophysical cord connecting eleven sovereign states from Egypt to Tanzania, which are home to an estimated population of 422.

Pembrokeshire contains some of the finest coastal scenery in Britain.

This book is a reference work about the study of oases in the context of globalization.

In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world.

Adapting to a Changing Environment provides tools and a theoretical framework for governments and managers to understand and confront the consequences of climate change.

First published in 1982, The English Medieval Landscape was written to recreate and analyse the development of the major elements of the medieval landscape.

This book provides an overview of ninety key concepts which often trouble those who are new to researching within the social sciences.

This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U.

This book investigates the fundamental role that tropical bioproductivity - or more specifically net primary productivity - has played in shaping the global geographies of food, finance, governance and people.

This book highlights the development of lake systems and water reservoirs as well as the impact of climate change on water resources in Central Asian countries.

Using the latest mapping techniques, J.

First published in 1997, this volume examines wastewater treatment plants in the UK and their counterparts in Germany in the wake of the International Study of the Effectiveness of Environmental Assessment (1996).

This highly practical handbook is an exhaustive treatment of eddy covariance measurement that will be of keen interest to scientists who are not necessarily specialists in micrometeorology.

The ultimate photographic collection of the most historic trees on the planet.

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

Originally published in 1975, this extensive bibliography has been drawn from archaeological, botanical, geological, meteorological and zoological sources.

This book takes a comprehensive look at several cases of climate change adaptation responses across various sectors and geographical areas in urban Africa and places them within a solid theoretical context.

Get the most informative paddling guide to the area, featuring 50 of the best routes for canoeing and kayaking.

This is the third book in the series of comprehensive guidebooks to birdwatching destinations in Australia.

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.

Explores the history and archaeology of two oases, remote but closely tied to the Nile valley for thousands of years.

Stretching for some 90 miles from the Kent boundary near Camber Sands with its sand dunes to Thorney Island within the sheltered waters of Chichester Harbour, the Sussex coast presents a rich variety of features, from bustling resorts to oases of calm and isolation.

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 edited volume addresses the impacts of climate change on Pacific islands, and presents databases and indexes for assessing and adapting to island vulnerabilities.

Qanat is a gently sloping subterranean canal, which taps a water-bearing zone at a higher elevation than cultivated lands.