Physical geography and topography

This volume presents an in-depth analysis of climate change problems and discusses the proliferation of renewable energy worldwide-in conjunction with such important questions as social justice and economic growth, providing an interdisciplinary approach to sustainable development.

Marine extremes, as they are conceived of in this volume, encompass environments, activities, events and impacts.

This atlas provides the most comprehensive and accurate overview of environmental risks relating to climate change vulnerability and adaptation in China.

The Global Forest Products Model (GFPM) book provides a complete introduction to this widely applied computer model.

The first single, comprehensive source for locating North American public prairies, grasslands, and savannas, Prairie Directory of North America is a guide unlike any other.

This book investigates the fundamental role that tropical bioproductivity - or more specifically net primary productivity - has played in shaping the global geographies of food, finance, governance and people.

In 1984, when this book was originally published the need to take forestry outside the forests and involve local people in tree growing was widely recognised.

Over the last decade, the field of plant ecology has significantly developed and expanded, especially in research concerning the herbaceous layer and ground vegetation of forests.

This book is useful to those in water resources management and policy formulations, hydrologists, environmentalists, engineers and researchers.

This book explores the current notion and definition of property, and its interpretation and implementation in relation to the environment.

The snails found living on rocky sea shores are among the most rewarding invertebrate animals to study.

Succulents are plants that hold water in their leaves, such as cacti, aloe, and echeveria.

This Fourth Edition of Cartography: Visualization of Geospatial Data serves as an excellent introduction to general cartographic principles.

The Broads discusses the history of the Broads, the waters in the past and the waters now, the people who come into contact with and influence these waterways, and what the future holds for this small but important area of the countryside.

In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world.

British interest in the Arctic has returned to heights not seen since the end of the Cold War; concerns about climate change, resources, trade, and national security are all impacted by profound environmental and geopolitical changes happening in the Arctic.

Why do we travel?

Fishes in Lagoons and Estuaries in the Mediterranean 2 extensively covers the systematic, biological, ecological, behavioral and genetic aspects of the sedentary fishes that spend their entire lifecycle in the coastal fringes, sometimes referred to as extreme environments .

This book presents an interdisciplinary study of Lake Cuejdel, one of the youngest natural dam lakes in Romania.

A beach-goer's pocket companion for lazy days on the shore, or for the armchair beachcomber recalling the feel of sand between their toes.

We live in a world that is increasingly vulnerable to climatic shocks - affecting agriculture and industry, government and international trade, not to mention human health and happiness.

The demand for water resources is increasing day by day due to ever increasing population, mostly from developing countries.

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century globally.

Much of the world's population lives within thirty miles of a coast, and beaches are perhaps the most popular tourist destinations worldwide.

This revision maintains the position of Forest Ecosystems as the one source for the latest information on the advanced methods that have enhanced our understating of forest ecosystems.

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

At a time when the Colorado River and all those who depend on it are in peril, this urgent book offers both a love song and a paean of regret to America's most spectacular river (Denver Post) and a plea to save [it] before it's too late (The Wall Street Journal).

Originally published in 1999 The Commercial Use of Biodiversity examines how biodiversity and the genetic material it contains are now as valuable resources.

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.

The book focuses on the human and social effects of the construction of hydroelectric dams in Brazil.

The first systematic and comprehensive account of the vegetation types of this country.

Since its discovery in early 1900, turbulence has been an interesting and complex area of study.

This book offers an extensive study of indigenous communities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, and their methods of forest conservation, along with an exploration of the impact of forestry operations in the islands and the wide scale damage they have incurred on both the land and the people.

Climate hazards are the world's most widespread, deadliest and costliest natural disasters.

Globally, there is a need to promote and empower practical action towards better environmental conservation and greater sustainability; education aspires to achieve and motivate this - one mind at a time.

Every year that passes without a tsunami means that we're just that much closer to our next one.

Fluvial Geomorphology of Great Britain studies the development of river-made land forms, together with the associated fluvial processes.

This book offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese diaspora.

This book analyzes climate change associated effects in the mountainous and coastal environments of Vietnam.

'Remarkable'OBSERVER'Deeply profound.

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Can you tell which plants are safe to eat?

Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the demand on water, food and energy.

From Chaucer's sweet April showers to the peasoupers of Sherlock Holmes the British scene cannot be contemplated without climate entering in.

This book investigates multidimensional change in the Arctic and policy response to it.

This book investigates the multifaceted nature of change in today's Nordic Arctic and the necessary research and policy development required to address the challenges and opportunities currently faced by this region.

In this comprehensive study, first published in 1950, Professor Fisher examines all the principal elements - physical and human - that influence environment, development and ways of life in the Middle East.