Physical geography and topography

This accessible shortform book describes storm surge forecasting to enable port managers and practitioners to forecast these and mitigate their effects.

An authoritative review of the characteristics and dynamics of desert dunes and their sediments ideal for graduate students and researchers.

Rivers are significant geomorphological agents, they show an amazing diversity of form and behaviour and transfer water and sediment from the land surface to the oceans.

Soil and Water Contamination, Second Edition gives a structured overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contaminants.

This wide-ranging exploration of the key contemporary relationships between social change and housing is both policy-oriented and theoretical, drawing on a group of internationally-respected academics.

"e;The agricultural sky"e; is a dominant natural entity that has influenced, interacted with, and guided the evolution of crops, farming practices, and cropping systems.

This new handbook brings together various views and experiences of the impacts of flooding and its management in Africa, Asia and Latin America by drawing from traditional and modern approaches adopted by communities, homeowners, academics, project managers, institutions and policy makers.

Compared to many other regions of the world, Africa is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and variability.

The Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is the next-generation multispectral imaging instrument to fly on US operational, polar-orbiting meteorological satellites.

Drawing from military geography's spatial roots, its embrace of dynamic systems, and integration of human and biophysical environments, this book helps in understanding the value of analyzing patterns, processes and systems, and cross-scale and multi-disciplinary ways of acting in a complex world, while making the case for a resurgence of strategic and military geography in Australia.

This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa.

This book proposes an alternative approach to understanding development and discusses the possibilities of alternative development in the age of global capitalism from a socio-cultural perspective.

People living in the mountains maintain a unique relationship with their surrounding environment.

In this unique edited collection, social scientists reflect upon and openly share insights gathered from researching people and the sea.

This book presents the most recent innovations, trends, concerns and practical challenges, and solutions in the field of water resources for arid areas.

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.

First Published in 1953, Geography from the Air is the first book in English to explain and illustrate fully the use of air photographs in the study of geography.

This book documents some of the perceptions, strategies, and actions of natural resource agencies in the twenty-first century as they seek to respond to the changed reality influencing their policies and practices.

What can we learn about the ancient landscapes of our world, and how can those lessons improve our future in the landscapes that we all inhabit?

This book focuses on validation and reconstruction work on the land surface temperature (LST) products retrieved by thermal infrared remote sensing.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the global climate change impacts caused by the continued use of fossil fuels, which results in enormous damage to the global environment, biodiversity, and human health.

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

This book offers an overview of recent scientific and professional literature on urban greening and urban ecology, focusing on diverse disciplines such as landscape architecture, geography, urban ecology, urban climatology, biodiversity conservation, urban governance, architecture and urban hydrology.

This book discusses the expansion of new activities carried out in Antarctica and the focus among treaty parties on the perceived challenges posed by adventure tourism in the region.

Originally published in 2002, Mountain Biodiversity deals with the biological richness, function and change of mountain environments.

Nowhere eise in the world did industrialized countries leave such early marks in the rainforest as in West Africa.

This authored brief discusses how to conceptualize the socio-material complexity of contested energy spaces in the Canadian North, specifically in the context of indigenous communities that have allowed industrial developments to occur on their lands despite the environmental and lifestyle consequences.

This textbook deals jointly with theoretical and practical concepts within geomatics in civil engineering, based on the global understanding of its use.

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.

The present book highlights studies that show how smart cities promote urban economic development.

Rainforest Corridors: The Transamazon Colonization Scheme offers a sweeping examination of one of the most ambitiousand controversialdevelopment projects in the history of the tropics.

This is a comprehensive treatment for advanced students and researchers in climatology, environmental science, geography, meteorology, agricultural science, and forestry.

This book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of different environmental problems via in-depth studies of the Indian subcontinent.

For millennia, plants and their habitats have been fundamental to the lives of Indigenous Peoples - as sources of food and nutrition, medicines, and technological materials - and central to ceremonial traditions, spiritual beliefs, narratives, and language.

These proceedings of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference (SSC) in Moscow from May 23 to 26, 2018 addresses important questions regarding the global trend of urbanization.

Wildfires, changing glaciers, deforestation, open-pit mining, increasing demands for food and bio-fuel production and the growth of megacities change our landscape.

This volume presents North American best practices and perspectives on developing, managing and monitoring indicators to track development progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in local communities and cities.

Mutter-Tochter-Reise Nach dem tragischen Unfalltod von Verenas Partner und Analenas Vater, werden ihrer beider Leben auf den Kopf gestellt.

A plague is spreading throughout the Florida Everglades.

This textbook explores the growing area of human-environment interaction.

Coastal communities depend on the marine environment for their livelihoods, but the common property nature of marine resources poses major challenges for the governance of such resources.

The remote, beautiful and poorly known rainforests of Cape York Peninsula tell a special story about Australia’s historic and present-day connections to New Guinea.

First published in 1992, this title offers an experienced and constructive evaluation of the ways in which water resources have been developed in Africa.

Increasingly used to represent climatic, biogeochemical, and ecological systems, computer modeling has become an important tool that should be in every environmental professional's toolbox.

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 large lakes of the East African Rift Valley are among the oldest on Earth, and are vital resources for the people of their basins.

Radar Hydrology: Principles, Models, and Applications provides graduate students, operational forecasters, and researchers with a theoretical framework and practical knowledge of radar precipitation estimation.