Physical geography and topography

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 world's coastlines represent a myriad of dynamic and constantly changing environments.

The Holocene spans the 11,500 years since the end of the last Ice Age and has been a period of major global environmental change.

This book is a comprehensive overview of the ever-captivating field of glaciation from the perspective of glacial landsystems.

Mountains represent one of the most inspiring and attractive natural features on the surface of the earth.

Mountain ranges are the most conspicuous elements of the earth's architecture, and the manner in which the architectural units are arranged or disarranged has become the study of a subdivision of geology known as Tectonics.

Urban agriculture offers promising solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, storm water runoff, and unemployment.

Urban agriculture offers promising solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, storm water runoff, and unemployment.

As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use.

As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use.

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

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

The Ice Age (Quaternary) is a period of extreme climate fluctuations that led to the growth and melting of massive ice sheets in the high latitudes.

A clear, concise discussion of today's hottest topics in climate change, including adapting to climate change and geo-engineering to mitigate the effects of change, Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition takes on the tough questions of what to do and offers real solutions to the practical problems caused by radical changes in the Earth's climate.

Advances in Mapping from Remote Sensor Imagery: Techniques and Applications reviews some of the latest developments in remote sensing and information extraction techniques applicable to topographic and thematic mapping.

Although GIS provides powerful functionality for spatial analysis, data overlay and storage, these spatially oriented systems lack the ability to represent temporal dynamics, which is a major impediment to its use in surface modeling.

As coastal environments around the world face unprecedented natural and anthropogenic threats, advancements in the technologies that support geospatial data acquisition, imaging, and computing have profoundly enhanced monitoring capabilities in coastal studies.

Whether addressing pollution problems or helping protect a specific use, watershed associations are finding that the competition for funds is getting harder.

This timely volume examines the work of the National Estuary Program, the prominent federally-funded initiative dealing with pollution and other anthropogenic impacts on estuarine ecosystems and the management plans necessary to ensure that these invaluable natural treasures remain healthy and productive for future generations.

Estuaries in every country exemplify the same paradox- they are among the most productive ecosystems and also among the most impacted by anthropogenic activities.

Acknowledging the present inability to determine objectively the status and trends among estuarine ecosystems, the environmental research community has recently stepped up efforts to develop and evaluate meaningful estuarine indicators.

A detailed account of the biology and ecology of vascular wetland plants and their applications in wetland plant science, Wetland Plants: Biology and Ecology presents a synthesis of wetland plant studies and reviews from biology, physiology, evolution, genetics, community and population ecology, environmental science, and engineering.

Grazing lands represent the largest and most diverse land resource-taking up over half the earth's land surface.

Written by experts in the field, Coastal and Estuarine Risk Assessment explores the science of exposure, effect, and risk.

Increasingly used to analyze and manage marine and coastal zones, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful set of tools for integrating and processing spatial information.

Part of the worldwide biodiversity program DIVERSITAS, the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) assesses the biological richness of high-elevation biota.

THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND AMAZON PRIME'S BOSCH AND NETFLIX'S THE LINCOLN LAWYERSOME CRIMES YOU CAN'T FORGET.

From the bestselling author of Wintering, Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing is a life-affirming and poignant exploration of nature, and how reconnecting to wild landscapes can create peace in our unquiet minds.

Pirates and smugglers, ghost ships and sea-serpents, fishermen s prayers and sailors rituals the coastline of the British Isles plays host to an astonishingly rich variety of local legends, customs, and superstitions.

Using unpublished diaries, Jim Perrin, the acclaimed author of The Villain and Menlove, tells the story of the greatest exploring partnership in British history.

Packed with surprising and fascinating information, London's Lost Rivers uncovers a very different side to London - showing how waterways shaped our principal city and exploring the legacy they leave today.

A celebration of the wildlife and landscapes of Britain's most vital wildlife habitats those that make up our coastline.

A celebration of the wildlife and landscapes of Britain's most vital wildlife habitats those that make up our coastline.

Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people.

Mount Ararat in Turkey is where, as biblical tradition has it, Noah's Ark ran aground and God made his covenant with mankind.

This book brings together original and novel perspectives on major developments in human rights law and the environment in Africa.

Qanats are ubiquitous, yet unseen, and a clever way to create streams where none exist in nature.

THE STORY BEHIND THE HARDEST CLIMB IN HISTORY & ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY 'DAWN WALL' 'Heart-stopping, absorbing' Daily Mail 'The most daring free climber on the planet' The Times__________ In 2015, climber Tommy Caldwell took on the hardest challenge of his life, spending 19 days freeclimbing Yosemite's vertical, 3000-foot Dawn Wall - regarded as the most difficult climb in history and a route nobody had ever done before.

Drawing on a variety of disciplines, Sustainable Diplomacy is a highly constructive work.

For more than 40 years I have been engaged in timberline research.

This chapter has shown a small sample of GIS applications in economic devel- ment.

This work becomes with methodological rigor a part of the innovative proposals for the characterization of the areas at risk of desertification.

Wind erosion occurs in many arid, semiarid and agricultural areas of the world.

Although numerous books have been written on both monitoring and modelling of coastal oceans, there is a practical need for an introductory multi-disciplinary volume to non-specialists in this field.

At present, constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment are a widely used technology for treatment of various types of wastewaters.

Modern seismology has faced new challenges in the study of earthquakes and their physical characteristics.

Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, "e;Changing Forests"e; explores how the indigenous Lenca community of La Campa, Honduras, has conserved and transformed their communal forests through the experiences of colonialism, opposition to state-controlled logging, and the recent adoption of export-oriented coffee production.

Drylands have been cradles to some of the world's greatest civilizations, and contemporary dryland communities feature rich and unique cultures.

Land-use change is one of the main drivers of many environmental change processes.

Groundwater is of utmost importance in the arid and semi-arid environment.