Physical geography and topography

This book provides an overview of the distribution, properties, and function of soils in Japan.

This festschrift honours Prof.

This book analyses the threat posed by the continued use of fossil fuels.

Many historians and political scientists argue that ties between Canada and Latin America have been weak and intermittent because of lack of mutual interest and common objectives.

Middle East and Mediterranean region locates at a crossroad of global climatic patterns.

Global change threatens ecosystems worldwide, and tropical systems with their high diversity and rapid development are of special concern.

Forests are considered the lungs of the planet, as they consume and store carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.

Originally published in 1988 Deforestation examines deforestation as a major environmental and development problem.

This book is a sociological account of the historical trajectory of feed-in tariffs (FITs) as an instrument for the promotion of renewable energy in Europe.

The management of common pool resources and publicly-owned areas is fraught with difficulty.

This book examines in detail the health of India's Haora River, which is of vital importance as the lifeline of Agartala, the Capital City of Tripura.

A thorough and detailed resource that describes the history, culture, and geography of the Himalayan region, providing an indispensable reference work to both general readers and seasoned scholars in the field.

This book demonstrates the social, historical, and environmental framework within which humans have developed a relationship with the forest and its resources.

Originally published in 1990 and designed as a student text, The British Seas is a clear introduction to the oceanography and resources of the region.

This book presents the latest advances in karstology by researchers at the ZRC SAZU Karst Research Institute, Slovenia - home of Classical Karst.

The impact of mining is too big to ignore in a world of oversubscribed water.

This book is a social-ecological system description and feedback analysis of the Lake Tana Basin, the headwater catchment of the Upper Blue Nile River.

River Processes deals primarily with flow and sediment dynamics in alluvial channels.

Mountain Meteorology: Fundamentals and Applications offers first an introduction to the basic principles and concepts of mountain meteorology, then goes on to discuss their application in natural resources management.

Forest conservation has become one of the most important environmental issues currently facing humanity, as a result of widespread deforestation and forest degradation.

This book assesses the construction of security in the context of climate change, with a focus on the Arctic region.

Lockhart and Wiseman's Crop Husbandry Including Grassland, Tenth Edition delivers the latest developments in crop varieties, crop protection products and environmental schemes.

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 volume uses an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to assess various issues resulting from human-environment interactions in relation to sustainable development.

Few subjects have caught the attention of the entire world as much as those dealing with natural hazards.

This study of wetlands management and development policy uses integrated ecosystem modelling which links hydrology, ecology and economics.

Coral reefs represent the most spectacular and diverse marine ecosystem on the planet as well as a critical source of income for millions of people.

The Amazon Basin contains the largest and most diverse tropical rainforest in the world.

Suserup Skov in Denmark is a well-preserved beech-dominated forest reserve with continuity in tree cover at least back to 4200 BC, indicating it to be a direct descendent of the primeval forests.

This book offers an introduction to the soils of Aotearoa New Zealand, structured according to the New Zealand soil classification system.

'I found myself turning the pages with an inward leap of joy' - Isabella Tree*WINNER of the Richard Jefferies Award for Nature Writing**Shortlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Conservation*'Exquisite' GUARDIANIt was a tragic day for the nation's wildlife when England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote eastern fells of the Lake District.

Volume 32 (2013) of the internationally recognized and acclaimed yearbook seriesPalaeoecology of Africa publishes 9 new interdisciplinary scientific papers on former and recent landscape evolution and on past environments of the African continent (e.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the hydrology of the Nile River, especially the ecohydrological degradation and challenges the basin is facing, the impact of climate change on water availability and the transboundary water management issues.

In Down the Wild Cape Fear, novelist and nonfiction writer Philip Gerard invites readers onto the fabled waters of the Cape Fear River and guides them on the 200-mile voyage from the confluence of the Deep and Haw Rivers at Mermaid Point all the way to the Cape of Fear on Bald Head Island.

This book provides an overview of lakes in Mongolia from scientific, economic and scenic points of view, presenting lake area changes, their sedimentological and geochemical characteristics, valuable economic and geoheritage resources and paleoclimate change reconstruction.

Bringing together a multidisciplinary set of scholars and diverse case studies from across the globe, this book explores the management, governance, and understandings around water, a key element in the assemblage of hydrosocial territories.

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.

An interdisciplinary work on regional integration and the rule of law in ASEAN and the emergence of a soft regulatory regime.

More than half the world's population now lives in cities.

This book covers the gamut of coastal hazards that result from short-term low-frequency events and have high-magnitude and far-reaching impacts on coastal zones the world over.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem, GRMSE 2014, held in Ypsilanti, MI, China, in December 2014.

Originally published in 1988, Conservation at Home looks at practical methods of conservation that can be carried out within the home.

This book illustrates the first connection between the map user community and the developers of digital map processing technologies by providing several applications, challenges, and best practices in working with historical maps.

The TransNav 2011 Symposium held at the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland in June 2011 has brought together a wide range of participants from all over the world.

This title, first published in 1987, provides an authoritative account of both the science and the politics of acid rain.

Globalization is not a new phenomenon, but it is posing new challenges to humans and natural ecosystems in the 21st century.

Water is life for all human beings and is essential for sustainable economic development.

Extreme weather events, such as droughts, strong winds and storms, flash floods and extreme heat and cold, are among the most destructive yet fascinating aspects of climate variability.

This book, first published in 1984, deals authoritatively with the nature and management of slope failures and sediment movement and their impact on the hazardous landscape of Los Angeles county.