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.

Revised and fully updated, this textbook provides a detailed yet accessible introduction to the key aspects of ecosystem services.

Asian countries are not homogenous.

There is a growing recognition of the contact we need with nature to be happy, healthy and to lead meaningful lives.

The Mekong Basin is home to some 70 million people, for whom this great river is a source of livelihoods, the basis for their ecosystems and a foundation of their economies.

Coastal communities depend on the marine environment for their livelihoods, but the common property nature of marine resources poses major challenges for the governance of such resources.

The political economy landscape has shifted as multinational corporations increase their investment efforts, changing the geographies of extraction.

In this second edition, the authors present new developments in the sustainability discussion and argue that a new understanding of sustainability is needed if we are to truly serve future generations ecologically, economically, and equitably.

This book examines the possible impacts of climate change on hydrology and water resources in the vast arid region of Northwest China, which is one of the world's largest arid places.

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

Published in 1968: The author not only pioneered modern-style village surveys in both England and India, but also modern style urban surveys and studies in India.

Real Estate and GIS focuses on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping technologies in the expanding property and real estate discipline.

Vom Mont Ventoux bis zum Stilfser Joch: Die besten Pässe für RennradfahrerKilometerweit über einsame Serpentinenstraßen, Kehre um Kehre immer höher hinauf, mitten durch ein atemberaubendes Bergpanorama: Passstraßen sind ein besonderes Sehnsuchtsziel für jeden ambitionierten Radsportler.

A proposed railway on the 5th European Railway Corridor (Venice-Kiev) between the northern Adriatic ports of Koper (Slovenia) and Trieste (Italy) and the interior of Slovenia required extensive karstological studies and planning.

PREFACE Within the Florida Everglades, tree islands, which cover only a small percentofthis ecosystem, historically have provided essential habitat for a wide variety ofterrestrial and amphibious plants, birds, and animals.

This book offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the Arctic in the era of globalization, or as it is referred to here, the 'GlobalArctic'.

This book examines the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity accounting within an applied development content  for Costa Rica.

The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves.

An Introduction to Numerical Weather Prediction Techniques is unique in the meteorological field as it presents for the first time theories and software of complex dynamical and physical processes required for numerical modeling.

This book gathers and updates the most significant advances of the last two centuries and presents an unprecedented micro paleontological study covering more than 20 stratigraphic sections.

This second edition, enhanced with more than 30 new figures, provides an up-to-date overview of physical geography suitable for all those with a personal or professional interest in environmental processes, climate change and understanding of the Earth's landforms and dynamics.

Ian Newton, author of Farming and Birds and Bird Migration returns to the New Naturalist series with a long awaited look at the uplands and its birds.

Deadly Peaks is a collection of the most notable mountaineering disasters and near-disasters in history.

The first in-depth synthesis of processes controlling river discharge to the global ocean, including climatic and anthropogenic factors; includes online database.

This book focuses on the present and future challenges of managing ecosystem transformation on a planet where human impacts are pervasive.

The Natura 2000 network of protected areas is the centrepiece of European Union nature policy, currently covering almost one-fifth of the EU's entire land territory plus large marine areas.

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

The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently.

This book characterizes palaeochannels and their hydrological properties in the Western Bengal Delta (Damodar Fan Delta) to help understand palaeochannel development, with the goal of better informing sustainable water resource management in the world's largest delta.

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

Originally published in 1984, Themes in Biogeography presents a broad examination of biogeographical themes, extending across the field of plant and animal ecology and geography.

This book critically engages with how the conservation of tropical coral reefs is financed.

Die Moore der Schweiz sind im Wesentlichen seit der Annahme der Rothenthurm-Initiative im Jahr 1987 in ihrer Fläche geschützt.

The mushrooming of illegal housing on the periphery of cities is one of the main consequences of rapid urbanisation associated with social and environmental problems in the developing countries.

Mountains have captured the interests and passions of people for thousands of years.

This book focuses on the problems of the Quaternary in South America and Antarctic Peninsula, with a strong emphasis in the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic approach.

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

This book is useful to those in water resources management and policy formulations, hydrologists, environmentalists, engineers and researchers.

A Vital Explanation of Water Law and PolicyBecause demand for and access to quality water far exceeds the current supply, it is increasingly critical to understand the state and federal laws and policies that govern water rights.

Originally published in 1975, this extensive bibliography has been drawn from archaeological, botanical, geological, meteorological and zoological sources.

This book, first published in 1978, provides a comprehensive guide to soil properties in any major world region.

With several thousand miles of coastline and nearly 800 islands, Scotland has the most diverse coast of the United Kingdom.

Over the last decade the concept of clustering has become a central idea for analyzing the competitiveness of nations, industries and firms.

Volume 1 of a two volume set, this book is a self-contained, state-of-the-art analysis of remote sensing, ground-based, and spatial techniques used for characterizing biomass burning events and pollution.

The aim of this book is to provide a synthesis of the newest research in Geography concerning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's).

The demand for water resources is increasing day by day due to ever increasing population, mostly from developing countries.

The only book that offers a comprehensive and fully up-to-date coverage of hydroacoustic ocean exploration, this work deals with the diagnostics of non-uniformities in a water medium using the hydroacoustic parametric antenna.

The book is organized into two parts: the first part covers (i) the precious lessons obtained from recent actual tsunami disasters including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, (ii) fundamental knowledge of tsunami for our survival, and (iii) concludes the lessons learnt and listing measures for tsunami disaster mitigation for saving human lives.

This is a guide to finding tree-roosts.