Physical geography and topography

Inspired by his ranger days in Rocky Mountain National Park more than forty five years ago as well as more recent rambles, Richard Fleck has created these descriptive essays that take readers from shimmering desert heat to snowy summits.

This volume discusses important issues associated with agricultural disaster risk, resilient agriculture, and livelihood.

This book argues that legal geography provides new insights into contemporary conservation challenges.

Successfully hike Mount Whitney with the highly informative guide that helps you prepare and provides the details you need to know.

This book is a compilation of recent developments in land, ecosystem, and water management in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro.

This cutting-edge summary combines ideas from several sub-disciplines to provide an understanding of sediment routing systems and Earth surface dynamics.

The book informs about agricultural landscapes, their features, functions and regulatory mechanisms.

This edited book will bring together a collection of works that comprehensively address the various landforms of Israel and how their evolution has been shaped over time by multiple geomorphic agents.

This Handbook is the first volume to comprehensively analyse and problem-solve how to manage the decline of fossil fuels as the world tackles climate change and shifts towards a low-carbon energy transition.

Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of grandeur, exceptionalism, and endurance.

Inconstant and forbidding, the arctic has lured misguided voyagers into the cold for centuries--pushing them beyond the limits of their knowledge, technology, and endurance.

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.

This edited volume reviews the latest advances in policies and actions in understanding the science, impacts and management of climate change in Indonesia.

Another volume in the popular New Naturalist series, this book gives a comprehensive account of the natural history of Britain and Ireland's inland waters, many of which are popular holiday destinations.

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 offers new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably.

This book, first published in 1979, collects together a key set of papers from the 10th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium.

Lightweight and small enough to fit in your pocket or tucked into your backpack, Survive Snow Country is the must-have item to keep with you in case you find yourself in a snowy survival situation.

Deadly Peaks is a collection of the most notable mountaineering disasters and near-disasters in history.

This book presents focussed information related to dynamic cropland transformation, agriculture development, climate change, and environment with the application of advance geospatial technology.

This book, first published in 1986, stems from the 1986 Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium.

The Allegheny National Forest exists on what might have been the most heavily exploited landscape in the history of civilization.

This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of the much acclaimed Encyclopedia of Coastal Science edited by M.

This edited collection of works by leading climate scientists and philosophers introduces readers to issues in the foundations, evaluation, confirmation, and application of climate models.

This book is the only comprehensive summary of natural resources of Oregon and adds to World Soil Book Series state-level collection.

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Collaboration across boundaries is widely recognized as a vital requisite for the advancement of innovative science to address problems such as environmental degradation and global change.

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

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in wood energy as part of a sustainable range of renewable energy options.

This festschrift honours Prof.

This book provides an integrated view of each of the four provinces of Pakistan, considered the four micro regions, owing to their relative internal homogeneity and distinctiveness from the adjacent regions.

This book shows an updated overview of research about human geography topics like urban growth/urban challenges, transportation, landscape, land cover, geospatial analysis, regional planning/local development, cultural geography, tourism, and so on.

The Connemara region in Western Ireland is world-renowned for its outstanding geology that is blended with spectacular landscapes.

This book, first published in 1983, incorporates a wealth of reference material - keys, nomograms, tables, charts - likely to be needed in the field for actual fieldwork.

While science was usually at the forefront of German Antarctic expeditions, research into the Southern Polar region always had a political or economic component, whether it was about resource use or securing areas of influence.

Computer Modeling Applications for Environmental Engineers in its second edition incorporates changes and introduces new concepts using Visual Basic.

This book describes and analyses various aspects of Israeli climate.

Learn how the climate can affect crop production!

This book presents an overview and knowledgeable on water resources management in Balkan countries - Slovenia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Greece, and Bulgaria.

GIS for Environmental Applications provides a practical introduction to the principles, methods, techniques and tools in GIS for spatial data management, analysis, modelling and visualisation, and their applications in environmental problem solving and decision making.

In this book, the authors examine the governance of marine protected areas (MPA), and in particular they compare two different forms of governance - co-management (CM) and adaptive co-management (ACM).

This book presents the outcome of an interdisciplinary and international workshop supported by the Volkswagen Stiftung (funding line 'Knowledge for Tomorrow') on the topic of 'Natural Resources, Socio-Ecological Sensitivity and Climate Change in the Volta-Oti Basin, West Africa'.

This book addresses groundwater governance, a subject internationally recognized as crucial and topical for enhancing and safeguarding the benefits of groundwater and groundwater-dependent ecosystems to humanity, while ensuring water and food security under global change.

Twenty years have passed since the Rochdale Canal reopened following a restoration scheme that faced almost impossible hurdles.

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

This book explores the potential of geoethics, as designed within the operational criteria of addressing the deeds and values of the human agent as part of the Earth system.

This book offers new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably.