Physical geography and topography

The coasts cover a diverse range of ecosystems within marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments.

This book provides a synthesis of the physiography and geodynamics of the entire Pyrenean orogen and its foreland basins, providing the "e;big picture"e; (structure of the orogen and chronology of its formation, overview of its post-orogenic evolution, and Quaternary and recent landscape history).

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 is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better.

To contemplate an alpine lake or a ribbon of white water twisting down the face of the Rocky Mountains is to appreciate the majesty of this block of bedrock thrust up from Earths interior, weathering eons of nature's assaults.

Floodplainsprovides an overview of floodplains and their management in temperate regions.

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and with the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur.

The floristic studies carried out during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Retezat Massif identified 1,152 plant species and 104 subspecies within the Cormobionta sub-regnum.

This handbook is recognition of the need to better integrate physical and human geography.

This book presents a comprehensive, contemporary review of tidal environments and deposits.

The tropics provide the key to understanding much biological and Earth science.

This book investigates the introduction of invasive species and their behavior in oceanic islands.

Die vorliegende Studie zeigt, dass der Nährstoff Phosphor in Böden und Landschaften sehr ungleichmäßig verteilt ist.

Waste management has become a great challenge for cities and urban areas, especially in countries with a high population density.

From killer fires to ecosystem rehabilitation, an exhaustive survey exploring the ecological, social, and economic consequences of managing fires in U.

Up to 20 percent of species may be extinct by 2030.

Mediterranean mountains exhibit many similarities in their biotic ecological, physical and environmental characteristics.

This book addresses some of the most urgent global problems in today's world from a geographical perspective and highlights contemporary environmental, political, economic, social and geoethical aspects.

Mountains, Climate and Biodiversity: A comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis for students and researchers Mountains are topographically complex formations that play a fundamental role in regional and continental-scale climates.

This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete geography of Slovenia in English.

Originally published in 1981, this book describes and interprets the physical nature of British rivers and is authored by leading authors from universities, the Institute of Hydrology and a water Authority.

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

This book focuses on River Basin Organizations as the key institutions for managing internationally shared water resources.

Attempts to halt the destruction of rain forests and other natural habitats in the tropics have met with little success.

This book is a state-of-the-art review of the physical, chemical and mineralogical properties of anthropogenic soils, their genesis morphology and classification, geocultural setting, and strategies for reclamation, revitalization, use and management.

Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics.

An essential companion for any visitor to the Alps The Alps remain one of Europe's foremost tourist destinations not just for its world-famous scenery, but also its remarkable and diverse wildlife.

This textbook shows all the existing knowledge about coastal geology and its implications for coastal management.

Originally published in 1998, Southern Forested Wetlands is an up to date, one source compendium of current knowledge on the wetland ecology of America's southern forests.

Wer kennt sie nicht, das Heidi und ihren Alm-Öhi, den Geißenpeter und Klara aus Frankfurt, Fräulein Rottenmeier und Herrn Sesemann.

Climate change is as much a cultural phenomenon as it is a natural one.

This book provides a wealth of information for all those involved in using ecological networks for biodiversity protection and environmental management, as well as their significance for planning.

This book discusses the outcomes of more than ten years of research in the southern tracts of the Amazon region, and addresses the expansion of the agricultural frontier, consolidation of the agribusiness-based economy, and expansion of regional infrastructure (roads, dams, urban centres, etc).

In this re-evaluation of the basic postulates of geomorphology, first published in 1982, Alistair Pitty examines the subject within its scientific context, arguing that coherence in geomorphology can be demonstrated despite the many apparent divergences, which should themselves be regarded as poles within a spectrum of opinion.

This book introduces a new approach to environmental sociology, by integrating complexity-informed social science, Marxian ecological theory, and resilience-based human ecology.

Der Bergbau hat Deutschland über Jahrtausende geprägt – von den ersten prähistorischen Feuersteinminen bis hin zu den imposanten Kohlezechen der Moderne.

Beyond the Megacity connects and reconnects the global debate on the contemporary urban condition to the Latin American tradition of seeing, considering, and theorizing urbanization from the margins.

The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in the United States.

Advances in Coastal Hydraulics contains twelve papers that report on recent developments in several areas of coastal hydraulics.

This book presents a complete set of studies of alluvial fan sediments in southern Iran from the point of view of sedimentology, sedimentary geochemistry, tectonics, economic geology, groundwater, geomorphology, hazards and telemetry.

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world's forests.

Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred long before I even knew what that word meant.

This book analyses the regional complexes of climate security in the Pacific.

This book re-conceptualizes energy justice as a unifying agenda for scholars and practitioners working on the issues faced in the trilemna of energy security, poverty and climate change.

Governance of global water resources presents one of the most confounding challenges in contemporary natural resource governance.

This anthology of studies by the eminent geographer and climate scientist Eduard Bruckner (1862-1927) on anthropogenic climate change and the social, political and economic impact of climate variations on societies in historical times, assembles his pioneering work in English for the first time.

Maps are tools used to understand space, discover territories, communicate information, and explain the results of geographical analysis.

This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way.