Physical geography and topography

Anyone looking to escape the hustle and bustle of the modern world for a while is invited to sit back and enjoy a leisurely trip down one of the best-known and most beloved rivers in the country.

Described as "e;a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self-educated seers"e; by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Rains Wallace turns his attention in this new book to another distinctive corner of California-its desert, the driest and hottest environment in North America.

This book provides an accessible but intellectually rigorous introduction to the global social movement for 'climate justice' and addresses the socially uneven consequences of anthropogenic climate change.

Over the last century, the scale of Canada's domestic disaster response system has grown significantly due to the country's increased capacity for emergency management and the rise in natural hazards.

Lightweight and small enough to fit in your pocket or tucked into your backpack, Survive Mountains is the must-have item to keep with you in case you find yourself in a mountainous survival situation.

Judicious soil fertility management is crucial for sustainable crop production and food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

Drone Futures explores new paradigms in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in landscape and urban design.

For anyone trying to separate the fact from the fiction, The Complete Guide to Climate Change is an indispensable resource.

The environmental histories of the Arctic and Antarctica are characterised by contrast and contradiction.

Dartmoor explores the complex and fascinating history of one of southern England's greatest National Parks, an area of enormous interest to naturalists and tourists alike.

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023The Sunday Times Science Book of the YearAs seen on Countryfile'If anyone was born to save Britain's rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole' Sunday TimesShortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary PrizeTemperate rainforest may once have covered up to one-fifth of Britain, inspiring Celtic druids, Welsh wizards, Romantic poets, and Arthur Conan Doyle's most loved creations.

This book, first published in 1985, arises from the 14th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium.

This book examines the history and science of forest–climate influences and forest management to mitigate climate change.

The study of hillslopes is a central element of geomorphology, and has been the cause of many of the major methodological disputes in the subject.

Combining memoir and studies in the Environmental Humanities, Black Swan Song weaves together an autobiographically-based account of the unique life and work of Rod Giblett.

Asoka Bandarage provides an integrated analysis of the twin challenges of environmental sustainability and human well-being by investigating them as interconnected phenomena requiring a paradigmatic psychosocial transformation.

Dokuchaev carried out most of his research in Ukraine.

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

Das Meereis der Polargebiete ist nicht nur wunderschön, es reguliert auch die Temperatur der Erde.

Over the last century, the scale of Canada's domestic disaster response system has grown significantly due to the country's increased capacity for emergency management and the rise in natural hazards.

Peatlands form important landscape elements in many parts of the world and play significant roles for biodiversity and global carbon balance.

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.

Initially associated with hi-tech irrigated agriculture, drip irrigation is now being used by a much wider range of farmers in emerging and developing countries.

The Jornada Basin LTER is located in the Chihuahuan Desert, the largest in North America.

THE "e;LITTLE ICE AGE"e;: LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES P.

*Shortlisted for the Lukas Prize Project*The tree was poached in a two-part operation.

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.

This book unravels the profound implications of biodiversity offsetting for nature-society relationships and its links to environmental and social inequality.

In the five years since the publication of the first edition of Spatial Analysis: Statistics, Visualization, and Computational Methods, many new developments have taken shape regarding the implementation of new tools and methods for spatial analysis with R.

My interest in the behaviour and movements of birds of arid and semi-arid ecosystems began when my wife, Sue Milton, and I were Roy Siegfried, Director, at that time, of the Percy approached by Prof.

Originally published in 1955 Atmospheric Turbulence examines dynamic meteorology and the fundamental part it plays in the overall science of meteorology.

India is facing its worst water crisis ever, and some believe that by 2030 it will fail to meet half its water demand.

In 2017 four rivers in Aotearoa New Zealand, India, and Colombia were given the status of legal persons, and there was a recent attempt to extend these rights to the Colorado River in the USA.

Practical Engineering Geology provides an introduction to the way projects are managed, designed and constructed, and how the engineering geologist can contribute to cost- effective and safe project achievement.

Bernd Heinrich is one of our greatest living naturalists in the tradition of Gerald Durrell.

Since the 1970s and particularly the works of Tuxen (1978) and Gehu & Rivas-Martinez (1981), dynamico-catenal phytosociology has facilitated the integration of vegetation dynamics by more precisely describing the trajectories of vegetation series.

In this unique edited collection, social scientists reflect upon and openly share insights gathered from researching people and the sea.

This book employs qualitative and quantitative methods to assess and scrutinize the impacts of climatic, topographic, land use, hydrologic and geologic factors on the hydrogeological disasters particularly flood and landslide in Rwanda.

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.

Discover the existential threats facing 50 unique places across the globe and the possible solutions that may save them from vanishing forever.

This book focuses on the application of geospatial technologies to study the land use land cover (LULC) dynamics, agricultural water management, water resources assessment and modeling, and studies on natural disasters.

2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association AwardBefore Forks, a small town on Washingtons Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyers Twilight book series, it was the self-proclaimed Logging Capital of the World and ground zero in a regional conflict over the fate of old-growth forests.

Marine extremes, as they are conceived of in this volume, encompass environments, activities, events and impacts.

The single most important book on wetlands, newly expanded and updated Wetlands is the definitive guide to this fragile ecosystem, providing the most comprehensive coverage and in-depth information available in print.

Granite Landforms provides a systematic, coherent, and comprehensive account and analysis of granite landforms.

This monograph is a fundamental study of watershed erosion and runoff processes.

This detailed exposition gives background and context to how modern biogeography has got to where it is now.