Physical geography and topography

The two volume proceedings of CCIS 698 and 699 constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem, GRMSE 2016, held in Hong Kong, China, in November 2016.

This book presents research on precipitation partitioning processes in vegetated ecosystems, putting them into a global context.

This title, first published in 1951, examines the growth, fields, techniques, aims and trends of geography at the time.

Originally published in 1975 Terrestrial Environments covers the zoogeography and ecology of the main terrestrial environments of the world, including fresh water habitats with emphasis on their fauna.

This book discusses ways to deepen the debate on the linkages between global risks and human and environmental security.

The East Anglian Coast is a place of diversity: it has sandy beaches, shingle and pebble beaches and it has mud.

In the tradition of Eiger Dreams, In the Zone: Epic Survival Stories from the Mountaineering World, and Not Without Peril, comes a new book that examines the thrills and perils of outdoor adventure in the "e;East's greatest wilderness,"e; the Adirondacks.

This book presents studies on current vegetation topics, from polar to tropical regions.

This book provides unique insights into the complex issue of water security in South Africa.

Originally published in 1972.

This book investigates the economic, strategic, and political importance of forests in early modern and modern Europe.

This comprehensive handbook provides a detailed and unique overview of current thinking about marine governance in the context of global environmental change.

The present book highlights studies that show how smart cities promote urban economic development.

Rural-Urban Water Struggles compiles diverse analyses of rural-urban water connections, discourses, identities and struggles evolving in the context of urbanization around the world.

The book deals with the most striking landscapes and landforms of Nigeria.

This book highlights the development of lake systems and water reservoirs as well as the impact of climate change on water resources in Central Asian countries.

This book presents a complete account of the 19th century German immigrant Edward Cordell, a hydrographer who discovered a major seamount that was designated the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary.

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

The present book highlights studies that show how smart cities promote urban economic development.

This volume comprises an outstanding variety of chapters on Earth Observation based time series analyses, undertaken to reveal past and current land surface dynamics for large areas.

This book explores the emerging field of political geology, an area of study dedicated to understanding the cross-sections between geology and politics.

This volume contains 22 chapters introducing a wide range of semi-arid and geologic landscapes.

Everglades National Park's mangrove ecosystem, extending over 230,000 acres of south Florida, is the most expansive in the western hemisphere and the largest continuous system of mangroves in the world.

This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of ecosystem services (ES) for the territory of the Slovak Republic.

Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick zur Biodiversität von Flussauen in Deutschland.

The book on sea ice ecology is the ecology of sea ice algae and other microorganism as bacteria, meiofauna, and viruses residing inside or at the bottom of the sea ice, called the sympagic biota.

This timely volume provides a thorough analysis of current trends in location and relocation of economic activity globally, regionally and locally.

This book focuses on different aspects of initiatives-to check pollution and to reduce consumption of fossil fuels-by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Headland-bay beaches (HBBs) are ubiquitous in coastal environment.

The Hydrology of the UK assesses the changing hydrology of the UK, focusing on key issues that affect the fundamental hydrological processes and have important implications for water resource management, flood risk and environmental quality.

This book examines social processes that have contributed to growing pesticide use, with a particular focus on the role governments play in urban aerial pesticide spraying operations.

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

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the global climate change impacts caused by the continued use of fossil fuels, which results in enormous damage to the global environment, biodiversity, and human health.

The world's population is expected to increase to over 8 billion by 2020.

Views on the dynamics of tropical forests are changing rapidly with the recognition that their environment is variable on the decadal to century scale.

First published in 1992, this title offers an experienced and constructive evaluation of the ways in which water resources have been developed in Africa.

This two-volume work discusses environmental health, the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health, and addresses key issues at the global and local scales.

This monograph is about hurricanes, prompted by a discovery that suggests they will become more powerful with global warming.

The impacts of human-induced climate change are largely mediated by water, such as alterations in precipitation and glacial melt patterns, variations in river flow, increased occurrence of droughts and floods, and sea level rise in densely populated coastal areas.

South Asia, harboring the complex Himalayan terrains, has over one-fifth of the world's population and is recognized as the most hazard-prone region of the world.

This second edition covers recent developments around the world with contributors from 33 different countries.

Originally published in 1964, and extensively illustrated with figures and charts, this volume gives an overview of both physical and human geography of the former USSR.

Weather provides a wide variety of stimuli for our senses.

The Karakoram contains the greatest concentration of glaciers and most of the largest ice masses outside high latitudes.

Dating back to the nineteenth-century transplantation of a latex-producing tree from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, rubber production has wrought monumental changes worldwide.