Physical geography and topography

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

This book highlights ecosystem services of Indian tropical soils driven by soil properties.

A comprehensive assessment of the effects of climate change on global grasslands and the mitigating role that ecologists can play.

This book examines water resources, helps understand complexities in water management, and explains the use of geospatial technology.

This book applies system theory to analyze the operation and structure of the complex earth surface system, including the interactions between society and nature that cause environmental degradation and threats to human populations.

Water is newsworthy: there is, or will be, a world water crisis.

David Knighton's best-selling book looks at the wide range of forms developed by natural rivers and the processes responsible for that development.

The mountains of Ashe County, in North Carolina's northwest corner, support an antediluvian mixed hardwood forest, rooted in nutrient-rich soil and watered by 40 to 60 inches of annual rainfall.

This book, first published in 1985, is a comprehensive guide to the main ideas in the history of geomorphology.

This volume discusses the challenges of Latin America in global environmental geopolitics.

Taken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses the well-drained areas of Florida, including high pine grasslands, flatwoods and prairies, interior scrub, hardwood hammocks, rocklands and caves, and beach dunes.

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

Geelong's Changing Landscape offers an insightful investigation of the ecological history of the Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula region.

Lightweight and small enough to fit in your pocket or tucked into your backpack, Survive Mountains is the must-have item to keep with you in case you find yourself in a mountainous survival situation.

This textbook provides an introduction to the field of mineral economics and its use in understanding the behaviour of mineral commodity markets and in assessing both public and corporate policies in this important economic sector.

The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the worldThe Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States.

Integrated regional models are conceptual and mathematical models that describe the physical environment, biological interactions, human decision-making, and human impact on the environment.

Written by a career geologist with decades of experience in the field, North America's Natural Wonders guides readers through the most iconic, geologically significant scenery in North America, points out features of interest, explains what they are seeing, and describes how these features came to be.

A comprehensive overview of glacially triggered faulting summarising theory, methods and modelling, and listing confirmed and proposed glacially induced faults.

Today, there is much discussion about the dangers of water contamination to human health.

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 comprehensive book examines a high mountain snow-covered expanse, spanning an investigation period of almost two decades.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

The products of mining are everywhere - if it wasn't grown, it was mined or drilled.

Dieses Lehrbuch hilft Studierenden der Geographie, das für Prüfungen über die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika nötige Wissen zu erarbeiten.

To contemplate an alpine lake or a ribbon of white water twisting down the face of the Rocky Mountains is to appreciate the majesty of this block of bedrock thrust up from Earths interior, weathering eons of nature's assaults.

Serengeti is arguably the most well-known and highly treasured conservation area in the world.

From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park.

This book presents a beautifully illustrated overview of the most prominent landscapes of South Africa and the distinctive landforms associated with them.

Am See zelten, unter Sternen schlafen und den Vögeln lauschen – Torbjørn Ekelund erfüllt sich den Traum vom Ausstieg in die Natur und zieht jeden Monat für eine Nacht in den Wald.

Over the last century, the scale of Canada's domestic disaster response system has grown significantly due to the country's increased capacity for emergency management and the rise in natural hazards.

This book discusses ways to deepen the debate on the linkages between global risks and human and environmental security.

Human civilization first emerged in ancient Mesopotamia, where the first writing and the first technologies originated.

This book addresses groundwater governance, a subject internationally recognized as crucial and topical for enhancing and safeguarding the benefits of groundwater and groundwater-dependent ecosystems to humanity, while ensuring water and food security under global change.

This book describes Hungarian karst areas and Hungarian karst research results.

Author Douglas Waitley invites you to step out of the air-conditioned shopping malls and crowded amusement parks and into Natural Florida.

This book, first published in 1982, is a collection of articles aimed at advancing the field of geomorphology.

The impact of mining is too big to ignore in a world of oversubscribed water.

This book discusses air pollution in Delhi from scientific, social and entrepreneurial perspectives.

Why, despite two decades of climate policy, have affluent democracies made so little progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions?

Creating Freshwater Wetlands, Second Edition clearly demonstrates the step-by-step processes required to restore or create freshwater wetlands.

Over the past twenty years, geography as an academic discipline has become more and more reflective, asking the key questions 'What are we doing?

Fully revised and updated for its third edition, this book presents the definitive compilation of current knowledge on all aspects of biochar.

The objects of the American Meteorological Society are "e;the development and dissemination of knowledge of meteorology in all its phases and applications, and the advancement of its professional ideals.

This book explores how social, economic and political factors set the stage for Hurricane Andrew by influencing who was prepared, who was hit the hardest, and who was most likely to recover.

This festschrift honours Prof.