Physical geography and topography

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

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

A comprehensive guide for students and researchers to the physical processes inside volcanoes that control eruption frequency, duration, and size.

A comprehensive guide for students and researchers to the physical processes inside volcanoes that control eruption frequency, duration, and size.

New edition presents progress made to practices, additional case studies, and emerging issues, for coastal scientists, engineers, planners.

New edition presents progress made to practices, additional case studies, and emerging issues, for coastal scientists, engineers, planners.

A comprehensive account of all components of the Earth''s cryosphere, including their past characteristics, and future states.

A comprehensive overview of glacially triggered faulting summarising theory, methods and modelling, and listing confirmed and proposed glacially induced faults.

A global assessment of potential and anticipated impacts of efforts to achieve the SDGs on forests and related socio-economic systems.

A global assessment of potential and anticipated impacts of efforts to achieve the SDGs on forests and related socio-economic systems.

A comprehensive overview of glacially triggered faulting summarising theory, methods and modelling, and listing confirmed and proposed glacially induced faults.

Focuses on practical application of spectral analysis of time series, with examples from environmental, engineering and physical sciences.

New translation of the Natural History''s opening books giving an influential Roman perspective on the natural world and geography.

Proclaims the enjoyment of teaching, studying and learning outdoors via the inspirational stories of some remarkable people.

Looks at the question: do forests cool or warm the atmosphere and reduce global warming?

A self-contained introduction to tides, explaining the origin of tidal constituents and their wave propagation in oceans and coastal seas.

Proclaims the enjoyment of teaching, studying and learning outdoors via the inspirational stories of some remarkable people.

A self-contained introduction to tides, explaining the origin of tidal constituents and their wave propagation in oceans and coastal seas.

Explores the history and archaeology of two oases, remote but closely tied to the Nile valley for thousands of years.

Fully updated new edition features a new introductory chapter and more end-of-chapter questions, guiding students to a mastery of petrology.

An overview of recent advances in the quantitative modeling of wildland fire based on fluid dynamics.

Provides a comparative approach to plant succession among all terrestrial biomes and disturbances, helping to reveal generalizable patterns.

Explores the history and archaeology of two oases, remote but closely tied to the Nile valley for thousands of years.

An overview of recent advances in the quantitative modeling of wildland fire based on fluid dynamics.

Provides a comparative approach to plant succession among all terrestrial biomes and disturbances, helping to reveal generalizable patterns.

Offers a comprehensive volume discussing groundwater problems in coastal areas, spanning fundamental science to practical water management.

Offers a comprehensive volume discussing groundwater problems in coastal areas, spanning fundamental science to practical water management.

Looks at the question: do forests cool or warm the atmosphere and reduce global warming?

A practical guide to the latest techniques to measure sediments, seabed, water and transport mechanisms in estuaries and coastal waters.

A practical guide to the latest techniques to measure sediments, seabed, water and transport mechanisms in estuaries and coastal waters.

This cutting-edge summary combines ideas from several sub-disciplines to provide an understanding of sediment routing systems and Earth surface dynamics.

This cutting-edge summary combines ideas from several sub-disciplines to provide an understanding of sediment routing systems and Earth surface dynamics.

The first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates, suitable for students and researchers alike.

The first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates, suitable for students and researchers alike.

A comprehensive assessment of the effects of climate change on global grasslands and the mitigating role that ecologists can play.

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

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

Introduction to geologic fracture mechanics covering geologic structural discontinuities from theoretical and field-based perspectives.

This book explores how the transnational legal process for REDD+ has affected human rights in developing countries.

This book explores how the transnational legal process for REDD+ has affected human rights in developing countries.

This book synthesises recent research across temperate and tropical forest ecosystems, to present the numerous ways forests are responding to global change.

This book synthesises recent research across temperate and tropical forest ecosystems, to present the numerous ways forests are responding to global change.

The first systematic and comprehensive account of the vegetation types of this country.

The first systematic and comprehensive account of the vegetation types of this country.

The first systematic and comprehensive account of the vegetation types of this country.

A dramatically illustrated book, by leading international scientists, which describes Antarctica''s central role in global scientific research.

A dramatically illustrated book, by leading international scientists, which describes Antarctica''s central role in global scientific research.

This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia''s deserts, exploring the cultural and environmental history of these drylands.

This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia''s deserts, exploring the cultural and environmental history of these drylands.