Physical geography and topography

This volume presents the latest science on all significant geological and paleontological aspects of the Earth during the Late Triassic Period.

This book investigates water resources management and policy in China over the last two decades with a core focus on the role of water for socioeconomic development and sustainability.

The book focusses on atmospheric processes, which directly affect human environments within the lowest 100-1000 meters of the atmosphere over regions of only a few kilometres in extent.

A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquityThe mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world.

This book offers a comprehensive and detailed summary of our knowledge and understanding of glaciers and sets them within a global environment context.

Focusing on the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Policy Learning from Canada is a systematic study of the international relevance of the Canadian immigration and integration policy model.

That one could walk drishod on the backs of schools of salmon, shad, and other fishes moving up Atlantic coast rivers was a not uncommon kind of description of their migratory runs during early Colonial times.

Time is a central feature of geomorphological research, and is used in this book (first published in 1977) to provide a conceptual framework within which to consider and compare old and new approaches to the field of geomorphology.

Increased yields, markets, and profitability have led to changes in crop husbandry.

Uncertainty in the predictions of science when applied to the environment is an issue of great current relevance in relation to the impacts of climate change, protecting against natural and man-made disasters, pollutant transport and sustainable resource management.

Fifty years ago, urban waterfronts were industrial, polluted, and diseased.

This unusual encyclopedia brings together in-depth information on more than 450 natural geographic features from around the world and offers an array of creative tools to promote critical thinking and classroom discussion.

This book draws upon the expertise of academic researchers, urban planners and architects to explore the challenge of building the sustainable cities of the future.

Over 50 full-colour world maps and graphics break down hardcore statistics to provide a compelling analysis of all the political, social, economic and ecological nightmares that keep us awake at night.

This second edition, enhanced with more than 30 new figures, provides an up-to-date overview of physical geography suitable for all those with a personal or professional interest in environmental processes, climate change and understanding of the Earth's landforms and dynamics.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of some of the most critical issues regarding the EU's Energy Union policy.

This book aims to introduce scientists and educated laymen to the fascinating geology of the Bergell Alps, first with some background information on geology, tectonics, minerals and rocks and then to lead readers on excursions to observe geological features in the field.

This volume provides a textbook and reference work on the physical and biotic landscapes of Southern Africa.

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

The first comprehensive natural history guide to the Connecticut River and its environs, with more than 750 illustrations The Connecticut River, New England's longest and most historic river, originates in northern New Hampshire and wends more than four hundred miles to Long Island Sound.

Innate Terrain addresses the varied perceptions of Canada's natural terrain, framing the discussion in the context of landscapes designed by Canadian landscape architects.

This is a guide to finding tree-roosts.

This book explores the link between individual lives and significant environmental issues affecting millions of people around the world.

This book, first published in 1985, arises from the 14th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium.

Water is life for all human beings and is essential for sustainable economic development.

The fourth edition of this highly acclaimed text on the natural environment of the earth has now been thoroughly revised and updated and includes a new chapter on The Organic World, more "e;windows"e;, new illustrations, and a range of other features.

This edited volume provides a critical discussion of particular trends that are widely recognised to influence water management by comparing them with what is actually happening in the field.

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

The presentations collected in this volume have a problem-oriented perspective, and focus on canal and river flow, riparian areas and aquifers.

Headland-bay beaches (HBBs) are ubiquitous in coastal environment.

Humans have had a long relationship with the ebb and flow of tides on river deltas around the world.

Biogeochemistry may be defined as the science that combines biological and chemical perspectives for the examination of the Earth's surface, including the relations between the biosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere.

This book elaborates the need, in a rapidly urbanizing world, for recognition of the ecological communities we inhabit in cities and for the development of an ethics for all entities (human and non-human) in this context.

This book offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the Arctic in the era of globalization, or as it is referred to here, the 'GlobalArctic'.

Nothing new from the Ice Age?

The new edition of this well-established introductory cartography textbook is updated to respond to the demand for critical engagement with new technologies, the passion for inclusive design, and for preparing students to build competence in fundamental skills.

Environmental Hazards in the British Isles (1981) offers a comprehensive account of the various hazards affecting Britain.

This book explores fluvial processes and their consequences on river dynamics in India.

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, first published in 1982, forms the proceedings volume of the 11th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium.

First published in 1967, this book explores the theme of geographical generalization, or model building.

This book brings together current knowledge of terrestrial C sequestration in Central Asia.

An accessible account of how forest fires work, the ecological effects they have, and why and how we fight fires.

This book investigates the current and future state of freshwater and the global drive to achieve the UN sustainability goal.

From his youthful second ascent of the north ridge of Mount Kennedy in the Yukons Saint Elias Range, an in-and-out on skis for which he had not entirely learned how to ski, to a recent excursion across the Harding Icefield conceived under the influence of rain and whiskey, David Stevenson chronicles several decades of a life unified by a preoccupation with climbing.

Offering new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores the dynamic relationship between settlement, climate, and colonization, covering everything from the physical impact of climate on agriculture and land development to the development of "folk" and government meteorologies.

Proceedings of a symposium at the 1987 INQUA Congress, Ottawa, Aug.

The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently.

This book argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus sectors while reducing trade-offs in the development of a green economy.