Physical geography and topography

The key aim of this book is to explore the global conservation and management of sharks.

In this book, a celebration of the work of the sociologist Peter Dickens serves as the catalyst for exploring the relationship between human 'internal nature' (our health and psychological well-being) and 'external nature' (the environment on which we depend and which we collectively transform).

Freedom in the Anthropocene illuminates the Anthropocene from the perspective of critical theory.

River Channel Management is the first book to deal comprehensively with recent revolutions in river channel management.

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

Peatlands form important landscape elements in many parts of the world and play significant roles for biodiversity and global carbon balance.

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.

Coastal regions around the world have become increasingly crowded, intensively developed, and severely exploited.

Weather provides a wide variety of stimuli for our senses.

This book employs qualitative and quantitative methods to assess and scrutinize the impacts of climatic, topographic, land use, hydrologic and geologic factors on the hydrogeological disasters particularly flood and landslide in Rwanda.

This book provides in-depth insights into the construction of the first road to reach riparian communities and the main access point to a national park in the Amazonian rain forest.

This book seeks to showcase the ongoing challenges of water resource and its management through innovative and cutting-edge approaches (flooding and droughts and their respective impacts; spatial and urban planning; early warning systems; estimation of losses; water resource in the age of global climate change; risk communication; meteorology; integrated analysis; risk mitigation; infrastructures; nature-based management; watershed management; transport; legal assessment; vulnerability analysis; public participation; or case studies).

This book provides readers with a foundation in policy development and analysis, describing how policy, including legal mechanisms, are applied to the marine environment.

First published in 1982, The English Medieval Landscape was written to recreate and analyse the development of the major elements of the medieval landscape.

This book examines the role and practical dynamics of governmental environmental law enforcement agencies and individuals who combat environmental crime.

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

A cutting-edge introduction to coastal wetlands and their applications, for students on related earth and life science courses and researchers.

Coral disease is quickly becoming a crisis to the health and management of the world s coral reefs.

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This book analyses climate change influences on rainfall erosivity and soil erosion across Central Asia, provides an overview (past and projections) on the Central Asian countries where projected changes in rainfall erosivity and erosivity density are the greatest, and discusses the potential impacts on the environment across the region.

Often featuring in lists of the world's best walks, the South West Coast Path is 630 miles long, and passes through two World Heritage Sites.

This book highlights ecosystem services of Indian tropical soils driven by soil properties.

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.

A good understanding of the status quo is necessary for the success of efforts to develop and maintain nature in built space.

Updated textbook on climate change for courses in meteorology, oceanography, environmental science, earth science and geography.

"e;Geospatial Information"e; is spatial data concerning a place or, in space, collected in real time.

The Routledge Handbook of the Polar Regions is an authoritative guide to the Arctic and the Antarctic through an exploration of key areas of research in the physical and natural sciences and the social sciences and humanities.

This textbook introduces the key concepts that underpin sustainable energy transitions.

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

Submarine mass movements are a hidden geohazard with large destructive potential for submarine installations and coastal areas.

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.

A reference volume discussing the dynamics, mixing, sediment regimes and morphological evolution in estuaries for researchers, students and engineers.

This book aims to summarize and report the major research achievements and validation results under the global land cover (GLC) initiative led by the Group Earth Observation (GEO).

This book provides an overview of the GLOWA-Danube research project from 2001 to 2011, a transdisciplinary initiative which explores the future of water resources in the Upper Danube Basin.

This book highlights the latest research in the field of Sustainable Aviation.

'Dynamic Meteorology: A Basic Course' is an introduction to the physics of the atmosphere.

The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees.

First published in 1984, The Red Sea shines light on one of the world's most important strategic waterways: Red Sea.

Global wetlands exhibit significant differences in both hydrology and species composition and range from moss-dominated arctic peatlands to seasonally-flooded tropical floodplains.

Bringing together diverse approaches and case studies of international health worker migration, Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials critically reimagines how we conceptualize the transfer of value embodied in internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs).

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

Ocean-a source of life, has been overused and heavily polluted.

Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.

Understanding water circulation in rocks represents a very important element to solving many of the problems linked with civil, environmental and mining engineering.

The New Geographies of Energy: Assessment and Analysis of Critical Landscapes is a pioneering collection of new geographic scholarship.

Greater Central Asia encompasses a vast area that includes deserts, natural grasslands, steppes, shrublands and alpine regions.

Judicious soil fertility management is crucial for sustainable crop production and food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

The IPCC (2007) warned that the Ganges Brahmaputra Meghna (GBM) basin will be at greatest risk due to increased flooding, and that the region's poverty would reduce its adaptation capacity.

The frequency and intensity of climate shocks such as heatwaves and flooding, are expected to increase under a changing climate with severe implications across the food, energy, water, environment nexus.