Physical geography and topography

This book, first published in 1902, is the product of the detailed geological survey undertaken by the Borneo Expedition of the late nineteenth century.

The world increasingly relies on groundwater resources for drinking water and the provision of food for a growing population.

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

This book offers a critical analysis of core concepts that have influenced contemporary conversations about environment-society relations in academic, political, and civil circles.

This book draws on the author's professional experience and expertise in humid and arid regions to familiarize readers with the basic scientific philosophy and methods regarding floods and their impacts on human life and property.

This book addresses societal relationships to river systems, highlighting many unexplored possibilities in how we know and manage our rivers.

Through stories of diverse landscapes from around the world, this book captures human cultures and their land use practices in the environments they inhabit.

This volume focuses on the broad pattern of increasing biodiversity through time, and recurrent events of minor and major ecosphere reorganization.

Biodiversity in Drylands, the first internationally based synthesis volume in the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Series, unifies the concepts of species and landscape diversity with respect to deserts.

This book highlights some of the most difficult and persistent exploration ever undertaken in the United States - in Burnsville Cove, a small limestone valley in west-central Virginia - while at the same time reviewing the scientific discoveries made in the area's 116 km of caves in the course of 50 years.

Despite all the controversy and hype that climate change has generated, there now exists an overwhelming body of scientific evidence that the problem is real and that its effects are already being felt on a global scale.

The Great Lakes have been central to the development of eastern North America.

A marvelously illustrated look at the world's diverse forests and their ecosystemsThe earth's forests are havens of nature supporting a diversity of life.

Volume 2 of the book 'Sand Dunes of the Northern Hemisphere' is sub-titled Characteristics, Dynamics and Provenance of Sand Dunes in the Northern Hemisphere.

This book comprehensively documents the various types of karst collapse and related conceptual site models, before discussing these collapses in terms of their impacts on engineering and the environment.

Operating in some of the most challenging and dangerous conditions on earth, mountain climbers are uniquely driven men and women.

A spectacularly illustrated journey into the intimate communities that native trees share with animals, insects, fungi, and microbesYou can tell a lot about a tree from the company it keeps.

This book details the impact of flooding on our environment, and the ways in which communities, and those that work with them, can act to manage the associated risks.

Marine and coastal resources provide millions of people with their livelihoods, such as fishing and tourism, and a range of critical additional 'ecosystem services', from biodiversity and culture to carbon storage and flood protection.

Elegant, novel explanation of climate change, emphasizing physical understanding and concepts, while avoiding complex mathematics, supported by excellent color illustrations.

This book focuses on geochemical behavior and ancient records of the specific biomarker levoglucosan in Tibetan glaciers, Based on samples from the Zangsegangri (ZSGR) ice cores obtained from the central Tibetan Plateau, it presents annually resolved levoglucosan records and fire changes over the past 430 years.

Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries.

The soils are fundamental to our existence, delivering water and nutrients to plants, that feed us.

"e;Artery"e; is an initiative on a European scale, funded by the INTERREG IIIB NWE programme, which puts riverside restoration and regeneration at the heart of regional strategies, helping communities across Europe 'turn back to face the water'.

This is the first book to describe the ecology of high latitude lakes, rivers and glacial environments in both the North and South polar regions.

This book is unique in providing a comprehensive, up-to-date synthesis of what is known about soil biodiversity and the factors that regulate its distribution, as well as the functional significance of below-ground biodiversity for ecosystem form and function.

This book brings together contributions from experts in water management, scientists, researchers, academics and lecturers, sharing  experiences and successes in this field.

You will find me where land meets sea .

The 740-mile Northern Forest Canoe Trail is the largest inland water trail in the United States.

This book focuses on validation and reconstruction work on the land surface temperature (LST) products retrieved by thermal infrared remote sensing.

This book investigates how actors organize in order to solve a water quality problem.

Access to water is one of the most pressing global issues of the twenty-first century, particularly when set against the background of a rapidly growing global population.

Representation of geographical data using graphs, diagrams and mapping techniques is a key for geographers and for researchers in other disciplines to explore the nature of data, the pattern of spatial and temporal variations and their relationships, and formulation of principles to accurately understand and analyze features on or near the earth's surface.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the alluvial fan phenomena, including all terminology, morphology, sedimentology, controlling factors, processes and the human impact.

Efficient and equitable water, wastewater and stormwater management for the megacities is becoming an increasingly complex task.

This book provides an introduction to rocky landscapes through carefully selected images from Google Earth, discussing what they show and provides references to the sites portrayed so that readers can go deeper if they wish.

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 provides insights into the benefits of using remote sensing data from a geoscientist's perspective, by integrating the data with the understanding of Earth's surface and subsurface.

Over eighty contributions from leading researchers review 2.

In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical.

For the first time at the beginning of the twenty-first century, urban dwellers outnumber rural residents and this trend is set to continue.

Landslides represent one of the most destructive natural catastrophes.

In her first book, Island in the Sound, Heckman brought to life Anderson Island in Puget Sound, its people, its history, and its sadly vanishing way of life.

This book underpins the geography of the Black Sea, covering topics such as morphology, morphography, geology, and history of the Black Sea.

Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home.

First published in 1987, Peter Brimblecombe's book provides an engaging historical account of air pollution in London, offering a fascinating insight into the development of air pollution controls against a changing social and economic background.

Managing today's lands is becoming an increasingly difficult task.