Physical geography and topography

This book addresses the importance of cultural values, local knowledge and identity in building community resilience in place based contexts.

This book is a compilation of recent developments in land, ecosystem, and water management in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro.

How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversityBecause climatic uncertainty has now become "e;the new normal,"e; many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to become more resilient in the face of such "e;global weirding.

Dunes is the first book in over a decade to incorporate the latest research in this active and fast-developing field.

This guide will help you to survive and thrive during your degree and on into the workplace.

Fascinating history of scientific ''discovery'' of Ice Ages, and implications for current social issues: glaciology and sociology writ large.

This book presents a complete set of studies of alluvial fan sediments in southern Iran from the point of view of sedimentology, sedimentary geochemistry, tectonics, economic geology, groundwater, geomorphology, hazards and telemetry.

Natural resources often stretch across borders that separate modern nation states.

These results from the National Research Programme on Climate Change of the Netherlands offer a synthesis of present knowledge in the fields of: source and sinks of greenhouse gases and aerosols; land-atmosphere interactions; the global energy balance; and radiative forcing and climate variability.

An accessible account of how forest fires work, the ecological effects they have, and why and how we fight fires.

These chapters provide valuable and comprehensive information on a variety of hazards, including both scientific and social aspects of disasters.

This book presents some of the most recent tools, methods and concepts in historical ecology.

For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City.

Reports of natural disasters fill the media with regularity.

This volume discusses the challenges of Latin America in global environmental geopolitics.

The Mekong Basin in Southeast Asia is one of the largest international river basins in the world.

Energy from wave and tidal power is a key component of current policies for renewable sources of energy.

Based on a major international study, this volume provides a synthesis of scientific knowledge on megacity urbanization on the coast, environmental impacts, risks and management choices, including a focus on adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management.

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

Since the publication of the bestselling second edition 5 years ago, vast and new globally-relevant geographic datasets have become available to cartography practitioners, and with this has come the need for new ways to visualize them in maps as well as new challenges in ethically disseminating the visualizations.

Coastal regions around the world have become increasingly crowded, intensively developed, and severely exploited.

First published in 1985, Quaternary Environments represents the culmination of Quaternary research in the region of Baffin Island, Baffin Bay and West Greenland over a period of twenty years and it will serve as a timely and complementary balance to the paleo- oceanographic studies in the NE North Atlantic.

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In order to feed their burgeoning populations, developing nations will need to double cereal production by the year 2050.

The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in the United States.

This book analyses climate change influences on rainfall erosivity and soil erosion across Central Asia, provides an overview (past and projections) on the Central Asian countries where projected changes in rainfall erosivity and erosivity density are the greatest, and discusses the potential impacts on the environment across the region.

Bestselling Van Life author Foster Huntington shares his experiences - as well as others - living by his own rules in this aspirational book filled with awe-inspiring photographs of unique homes in unexpected places.

This textbook explores the growing area of human-environment interaction.

This book explores how natural landscapes are linked to positive mental wellbeing.

A study of how encounters between forestry bureaucrats and indigenous forest managers in Mexico produced official knowledge about forests and the state.

The snails found living on rocky sea shores are among the most rewarding invertebrate animals to study.

As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use.

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

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.

The International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) was established as a means of raising worldwide public and political awareness of the vast, though frequently under-used, potential the Earth Sciences possess for improving the quality of life of the peoples of the world and safeguarding Earth's rich and diverse environments.

A new edition of a unique textbook that provides an exhaustive treatment of the world's different coasts with focus on climate change sea-level rise Coastlines of the world are as diverse and complex as any geological setting on Earth, and understanding them is extremely important.

The Reader is the first comprehensive history of the noosphere and biosphere.

This book, first published in 1976 and in this second edition in 1988, combines an examination of the political, cultural and economic geography of the Middle East with a detailed study of the region's landscape features, natural resources, environmental conditions and ecological evolution.

The book presents the results of a doctoral thesis conducted under the supervision of two international governmental universities in Egypt and the USA.

Climates and Weather Explained is a comprehensive introduction to the study of the atmosphere integrating climatology and meteorology.

This book presents selected papers from the EuroKarst 2018 conference, which highlighted the latest advances in the field of Karst Hydrogeology and Carbonate Reservoirs.

Water is newsworthy: there is, or will be, a world water crisis.

This is the ultimate guide to big mammals of the Rocky MountainsElk, Grizzly Bears, Wolves, Bison, Black Bears, Moose, Bighorn Sheep, Mountain Lions, and Whitetail Deer.

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

The Zambezi river is the fourth longest in Africa, crossing or bordering Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

The edited book deals with climate change and its response to river system which is one of the most burning issues of the Global environment.

This book provides an original review of Ocean Literacy as a component of public policy in Europe and beyond.