Physical geography and topography

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

This book provides a detailed description of fluvial processes and their influence on urban sites.

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 explores conservation practices on private land, based on research conducted with landholders in the hinterlands of Melbourne, Australia.

This book assesses the impact of energy transitions on the future of natural gas in the EU energy mix.

This book represents an introductory review of disturbance ecology and threat analysis, providing schematic concepts and approaches useful for work on sites that are affected by the impact of human actions.

'The Ganges: Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Importance' is a geographical, cultural, economic, and environmental interpretation of the Ganga River.

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

This book illustrates the diversity of hypogene speleogenetic processes and void-conduit patterns depending on variations of the geological environments by presenting regional and cave-specific case studies.

This book provides an appealing and informative overview of the outstanding landforms and landscapes of Scotland.

History and Climate Change is a balanced and comprehensive overview of the links between climate and man's advance from early to modern times.

Rivers are the great shapers of terrestrial landscapes.

This book presents selected papers from the International Geographical Union (IGU) Thematic Conference 2022, which was held at the Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, India, November 24-25, 2022.

The large lakes of the East African Rift Valley are among the oldest on Earth, and are vital resources for the people of their basins.

This book presents the most comprehensive and detailed overview of the physical environment of Hungary.

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.

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.

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

This book is devoted to the Anthropocene, the period of unprecedented human impacts on Earth's environmental systems, and illustrates how Geographers envision the concept of the Anthropocene.

This book examines Tokyo's changes, current challenges, and future trends through a new kind of regional geography and serves as an important source of comprehensive information about the past, present, and future perspectives of Tokyo as a global city.

The proceedings of the 4th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics offers the latest research results concerning quantitative modelling of the interaction of water and sediment and the shapes this interaction makes in rivers, watersheds, estuaries, the coast, the continental shelf and the deep sea.

by Peter J.

This edited volume reviews the latest advances in policies and actions in understanding the science, impacts and management of climate change in Indonesia.

This book guides readers through the most iconic, geologically significant scenery in South America, points out features of interest, and describes how these features came to be.

Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature.

This book presents a detailed study of the structure and variability of internal tides and their geographical distribution in the ocean.

Urban agriculture offers promising solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, storm water runoff, and unemployment.

Climate change is one of the inescapable themes of current times.

No other disjunct pieces of land present such striking similarities as the widely sepa- 1 rated regions with a mediterranean type of climate, that is, the territories fringing the Mediterranean Sea, California, Central Chile and the southernmost strips of South Mrica and Australia.

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

The new edition of Arid Zone Geomorphology aims to encapsulate the advances that have been made in recent years in the investigation and explanation of landforms and geomorphological processes in drylands.

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

Australian Rainforest Woods describes 141 of the most significant Australian rainforest trees and their wood.

Canada's Vegetation includes comprehensive sections on tundra, forest-tundra, boreal forest and mixed forest transition, prairie (steppe), Cordilleran environments in western North America, temperate deciduous forests, and wetlands.

The Ice Age (Quaternary) is a period of extreme climate fluctuations that led to the growth and melting of massive ice sheets in the high latitudes.

This book focuses on a representative example and one of the world's largest steppe conversions, and provides a detailed overview of the results of the BMBF-funded research project KULUNDA.

Why our cats are a danger to species diversity and human healthIn 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles.

This book presents selected papers from the International Geographical Union (IGU) Thematic Conference 2022, which was held at the Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, India, November 24-25, 2022.

Focusing on the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Policy Learning from Canada is a systematic study of the international relevance of the Canadian immigration and integration policy model.

This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the role of gardens in cities throughout different historical periods.

Is safe and sustainable water and sanitation for all an unaffordable pipedream?

Originally published in 1973.

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.

This book explores the possibility of building the resilience of the UNESCO cultural landscapes, both using theoretical conceptions and practical strategies and actions.

This book discusses the reality of implementing sustainable forest management measures.

The North Pacific temperate rainforest, stretching from southern Alaska to northern California, is the largest temperate rainforest on earth.

Originally published in 1984 Nature's Ideological Language examines the common ideological roots of environmental reclamation and nature preservation.

This book offers a comprehensive and detailed summary of our knowledge and understanding of glaciers and sets them within a global environment context.

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