Physical geography and topography

This electronic-book provides a comprehensive examination of the systems approach to habitat restoration.

This book describes the 1873 voyage of the British explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, based on the diaries and photographs of Lieutenant Herbert C.

This book provides the necessary background of geometry, mathematics and physical geodesy, useful to a rigorous approach to geodetic heights.

The wild beauty of deserts has always been a source of fascination the world over.

This book explores the real-world consequences changing ideas and strategies have on effective climate governance.

The story of invasive species in New Zealand is unlike any other in the world.

Freshwater ecosystems have the greatest species diversity per unit area and many endangered species.

Access to modern energy is central in addressing the major global challenges of the 21st century, including poverty, climate change and famine.

This volume provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human well-being.

Climatologists with an eye on the past have any number of sources for their work, from personal diaries to weather station reports.

The Pharoahs were masters of the Nile: they had a detailed understanding of the ways of the river.

The purpose of this book is to present a range of cases and comparison of the issues, insights and cases emerging from the Sustainable Energy Mix Summit in the Galapagos that offer a better understanding of energy mix in fragile environments from a variety of International locations and contexts including the Galapagos.

This book focuses on the fungi found in one of the most pristine regions on Earth: Antarctica.

At a time of societal urgency surrounding ecological crises from depleted fisheries to mineral extraction and potential pathways towards environmental and ecological justice, this book re-examines ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) from a historical and comparative perspective.

The Lakshadweep islands are a group of 36 coral islands in the Indian Ocean.

This textbook introduces physical geodesy.

Based on personal interviews with the principal policy-makers of the 1970s, Korea's Development under Park Chung-Hee examines how the president sought to develop South Korea into an independent, autonomous sovereign state both economically and militarily.

The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 is considered to have been one of the worst natural disasters in history, affecting twelve countries, from Indonesia to Somalia.

This book documents some of the perceptions, strategies, and actions of natural resource agencies in the twenty-first century as they seek to respond to the changed reality influencing their policies and practices.

This is the first book to systematically describe the formation and historical changes of the Monpa people's area (Monyul) through its nature, society, culture, religion, agriculture and historically deep ties with Bhutan, Tibet and the Tibetan Buddhist faith.

The Middle East region holds the world's largest oil and natural gas proven reserves.

This book explores a platform for insightful discussions and scientific discourse on various aspects of landslides and their risk management, with insights focused on the Himalayan states at a sub-regional level.

The North American Forests: Geography, Ecology, and Silviculture describes where, why, and how the many kinds of trees found on this continent grow in silvical associations - called forest cover types.

First published in 1967, this book explores the theme of geographical generalization, or model building.

A stunningly illustrated atlas of the world's rivers, estuaries, and deltas, and their ecosystemsFrom the Congo and the Mekong to the Seine and the Mississippi, Earth's rivers carve through landscapes before coursing into the world's oceans through estuaries and deltas.

This book gives the most detailed and comprehensive physico-geographical overview of the very unique country of Mongolia.

Based on the material presented at a conference organized by the Centre d'Oceanologie of Marseille, held in 2008, this text covers a wealth of hot topics related to the way mankind interacts with the marine environment.

The book is concerned principally with geobotanical mapping.

The alpine treeline ecotone (ATE) is an area of transition high on mountains where closed canopy forests from lower elevations give way to the open alpine tundra and rocky expanses above.

This book explores the multi-dimensional asymmetries of scale, time, and directions in the large dam controversy with a regional focus on Asia, especially on India and China.

'Saltmarshes are often remote, inhospitable places, neither land nor sea, as hard to pin down as they are to navigate.

Soils and sediments influence current processes, preserve evidence of past processes, indicate evolutionary phases in landscapes and provide a basis for relative and absolute chronologies.

A synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.

Data Presentation with SPSS Explained provides students with all the information they need to conduct small scale analysis of research projects using SPSS and present their results appropriately in their reports.

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

This book provides state-of-the-art guidance on groundwater modelling to meet the challenges of water management in arid and semi-arid areas.

This edited collection examines the various influences, relationships, and developments beer has had from distinctly spatial perspectives.

In its first English-language edition, this book introduces the many-faceted interactions of animal populations with their habitats.

When looking at old pictures of Toronto, it is clear that the city's urban, economic, and social geography has changed dramatically over the generations.

This is the first book to review all the fields of equatorial electrojet phenomena and their relevant theories in one volume.

This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction.

Wetlands - swamp, marsh, bayou, tundra and bog - are places that are rarely visited and often misunderstood but they have, in fact, conspicuous roles in the physical, biological and cultural geography of the world.

The Nile River and its basin extend over a distinctive geophysical cord connecting eleven sovereign states from Egypt to Tanzania, which are home to an estimated population of 422.

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.

This book is a proceedings of the 'International Symposium on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau and Mountain Meteorology', held in 20-24 March, 1984.

This powerful book shows us that we are in deep denial about the magnitude of the global environmental challenges and resource constraints facing the world.

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

Many coastal communities have built structures at their beaches and added quantities of sand in contoured designs to combat erosion.

The third edition of this classic text, presents a broad-based study of the variations in the form and functioning of the biosphere at regional and global scale.