Physical geography and topography

Canada and the United States share the world's longest international border.

Coastal zones are becoming increasingly topical (and politically sensitive) as they face relentless pressures from urban expansion, recreational development, and sea level rise due to climate change.

Tropical rainforests fascinate scientists and explorers.

Floods and flash floods with hydro-meteorological and tropical cyclones are the some of the most devastating natural disasters causing massive damages to natural and man-made features.

Bringing together a multidisciplinary set of scholars and diverse case studies from across the globe, this book explores the management, governance, and understandings around water, a key element in the assemblage of hydrosocial territories.

Revised and fully updated, this textbook provides a detailed yet accessible introduction to the key aspects of ecosystem services.

Recent claims regarding convergence and divergence between land change science and political ecology as approaches to the study of human-environment relationships and sustainability science are examined and analyzed in this innovative volume.

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

This book will teach you everything you need to know about sustainable living-from reducing your greenhouse gas footprint to making sure that you are part of the green economy.

The book presents the processes governing the dynamics of landscapes, soils and sediments, water and energy under different climatic regions using studies conducted in varied climatic zones including arid, semi-arid, humid and wet regions.

Recognizing that sound information is vital to the progress of conservation, IUCN have gathered together a visual portfolio of maps of rain forests in Africa.

In the past decades advances have been made in the research and practice on unsaturated soil mechanics.

This book interrogates the impact of tourism on local lives and environments along the southern Pacific Coast of Nicaragua.

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

In this synthesis of urban geography and environmental studies, ten scholars explore the complex physical and human characteristics of Canada's best known region.

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

This book compares and contrasts traditional crime scenes with scenes of climate crisis to offer a more expansive definition of crime which includes environmental harm.

First published in 1984, The Mediterranean Region considers the broad economic and political problems facing the region from a variety of perspectives.

Advances in Coastal Hydraulics contains twelve papers that report on recent developments in several areas of coastal hydraulics.

From climate change over shale gas to the race for the Arctic, energy makes headlines in international politics almost daily.

The current rate and scale of environmental change around the world makes the detection and understanding of these changes increasingly urgent.

This is the first comprehensive book on the rivers of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta.

In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure.

Since The Little Ice Age was published in 1988, interest in climatic history has grown rapidly and research in the area has flourished.

This book presents the fundamentals of polarimetric radar remote sensing through understanding wave scattering and propagation in geophysical media filled with hydrometers and other objects.

The study and application of spatial information systems have been developed primarily from the use of computers in the geosciences.

The use of small unoccupied aerial systems (sUAS) for acquiring close-range remotely sensed data has substantially increased in the past 5 years.

Advanced Mathematical Tools for Control Engineers: Volume 1 provides a blend of Matrix and Linear Algebra Theory, Analysis, Differential Equations, Optimization, Optimal and Robust Control.

The growth of cities poses ever-increasing challenges for the natural environment on which they impact and depend, not only within their boundaries but also in surrounding peri-urban areas.

A Guardian 'Book of the day'Unofficial poet laureate of our woodlands.

These papers show how new research in the classic areas and Germany, but particularly in Eastern Europe, is radically altering views of the stratigraphy and palaeocology of the early-middle Pleistocene period, showing that major glaciations did not begin only in the late- middle Pleistocene.

The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth and its people.

Since the start of the twenty-first century there has been an unprecedented focus upon water as a key factor in the future of both society and environment.

This book describes the algorithms, validation and preliminary analysis of the Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) products, a long-term, high-quality dataset that is now freely available worldwide to government organizations and agencies, scientific research institutions, students and members of the general public.

Coming to Pass tells the story of a little-developed necklace of northern Gulf Coast islands.

This book examines Tokyo's changes, current challenges, and future trends through a new kind of regional geography and serves as an important source of comprehensive information about the past, present, and future perspectives of Tokyo as a global city.

Gathering its waters from the plains of Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska, the Kaw is truly Americas prairie river; the only one to arise entirely on the Great Plains and traverse all three major grasslandsshortgrass, mixed-grass, and tallgrass prairies.

An overview of recent advances in the quantitative modeling of wildland fire based on fluid dynamics.

This new textbook is a modern look at key concepts of sedimentology.

Immerse yourself in the beachcombing experience; the wind in your face, the smell of salt spray, the roar of the ocean; it's an assault on the senses, the perfect tonic.

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.

Mountains have forever been steeped in poetry, symbolism and mystery, inspiring everyone from the explorers who wish to scale every peak to those who wish to walk in the valleys, ski the slopes or take in the crisp air and feel renewed once more.

This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management.

Originally published in 1982, Biogeographical Processes is a concise introduction to biogeography aimed at undergraduate students.

In addition to being a fundamental concept for planning the water infrastructure which supports extensive agricultural economies across Southeast Asia, knowledge of the Mekong River's hydrological catchments has calibrated the control of land, resources and people.

This book explores China's eco-development strategies and practices from a multi-scalar perspective, discussing the importance of interplay between multi spatial levels of the built environment, as well as the stakeholders who are key players for China's eco-development.

This book presents current progress in landslide science and consists of four parts: (1) Progress in Landslide Science, (2) Landslide Dynamics, (3) Landslide Monitoring, and (4) Landslide Risk Assessment.

Most government agencies and private companies are investing significant resources in the production and use of geographical data.