Physical geography and topography

Applications of radioactive and stable isotopes have revolutionized our understanding of the Earth and near-earth surface processes.

This Handbook is the first volume to comprehensively analyse and problem-solve how to manage the decline of fossil fuels as the world tackles climate change and shifts towards a low-carbon energy transition.

This book presents extensive and new information on the geomorphology of cratonic areas of southern South America.

This book is an analytical account of how Roald Amundsen used sledge dogs to discover the South Pole in 1911, and is the first to name and identify all 116 Polar dogs who were part of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1912.

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in wood energy as part of a sustainable range of renewable energy options.

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

This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011.

It is difficult for me to recollect a time when I was not fascinated with the very notion of a desert.

Featuring the previously unpublished diary of Jose Maria Sobral, Under-Lieutenant of the Argentine Navy, this book provides insight on his life and his participation in Otto Nordenskjold's Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1903.

In recent years the Arctic has become the focus of political, popular and scholarly debates around the future of our world's Energy.

This book describes the urgent challenge faced by cities worldwide to become resilient to climate change impacts.

Join Milly on her microlight adventure and discover how amazing and awesome migratory shorebirds are!

Extensive field studies on the African and North American plates during this past decade have yielded a wealth of new data and ideas about rift basins and the origin of passive margins.

This revised and updated edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the subject, exploring the world's landforms from a broad systems perspective.

Lagoons and estuaries are transition spaces between earth and sea.

This book focuses on geochemical behavior and ancient records of the specific biomarker levoglucosan in Tibetan glaciers, Based on samples from the Zangsegangri (ZSGR) ice cores obtained from the central Tibetan Plateau, it presents annually resolved levoglucosan records and fire changes over the past 430 years.

Cratons and Fold Belts of India, is a unique attempt at presenting geological characteristics and evolution of the fold belts and the cratonic areas of the Indian shield.

This book presents chapters, written by leading coastal scientists, which collectively depict the current understanding of the processes that shape barrier islands and barrier spits, with an emphasis on the response of these landforms to changing conditions.

The utilization of successful plasticulture engineering technology can ideally optimize crop yields and provide both economic and environmental benefits, such as reducing the need for water and fertilizer.

This book discusses air pollution in Delhi from scientific, social and entrepreneurial perspectives.

This book explores urban futures in the making, as seen through the lens of urban infrastructure.

This book is a social-ecological system description and feedback analysis of the Lake Tana Basin, the headwater catchment of the Upper Blue Nile River.

Originally published in 2002, Mountain Biodiversity deals with the biological richness, function and change of mountain environments.

A celebration of the wildlife and landscapes of Britain's most vital wildlife habitats those that make up our coastline.

Stemming from an 11-year DFID funded programme under its Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS), Technology Development Assistance for Agriculture: Putting Research into Low Income Countries reviews part of this programme as a case study of a broader issue of technology development for Africa.

For introductory courses in physical geology.

One of the most amazing and accessible wildlife-watching destinations on earth, the "e;Top End"e; of Australia's Northern Territory is home to incredible birds and animals-from gaudy Red-collared Lorikeets to sinister Estuarine Crocodiles and raucous Black Flying-foxes.

The Bestselling Classic Updated for Surfers, Sailors, Oceanographers, Climate Activists, and Those Who Love the Sea First published in 1963 and updated in 1979, this classic was an essential handbook for anyone who studies, surfs, protects, or is fascinated by the ocean.

This book, first published in 1989, the proceedings of the 19th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, is the first set of essays focused on the history of the subject.

Over the last five centuries, plantation crops have represented the best and worst of industrialized agriculture - "e;best"e; through their agronomic productivity and global commercial success, and "e;worst"e; as examples of exploitative colonialism, conflict and ill-treatment of workers.

Written for researchers, university lecturers and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in all fields of archaeological and anthropological study, this collection features new research from different excavation sites around Indonesia together with pioneering expert analysis.

This volume covers the language situation in Hong Kong, Timor-Leste and Sri Lanka explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages.

This book explores a platform for insightful discussions and scientific discourse on various aspects of landslides and their risk management, with insights focused on the Himalayan states at a sub-regional level.

This book describes Sicily's unique and varied karst features, discussing the notable geographical areas, their lithology and genesis and, in a number of cases, their value as geosites to be preserved for scientific or tourism purposes.

This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way.

This book describes the importance of water resources for socio-economic and ecological development including geomorphic and ecological environments.

The Pascagoula River is the largest unobstructed river in the contiguous United States.

First published in 1997, this volume examines wastewater treatment plants in the UK and their counterparts in Germany in the wake of the International Study of the Effectiveness of Environmental Assessment (1996).

This book reviews the distribution of soils across Egypt, their history, genesis, pollution and management.

This book focuses on the presentation and evaluation of geological maps of the Central Europe from 1750 up to 1840.

The earth's cryosphere, which includes snow, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, ice shelves, sea ice, river and lake ice, and permafrost, contains about 75% of the earth's fresh water.

This new edition of Conservation and Management of Tropical Rainforests applies the large body of knowledge, experience and tradition available to those who study tropical rainforests.

Over 100 authors present 25 contributions on the impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosystems including:key processes of the earth system such as the CO2 fertilization effect, shifts in disturbances and biome distribution, the saturation of the terrestrial carbon sink, and changes in functional biodiversity,ecosystem services such the production of wheat, pest control, and carbon storage in croplands, and sensitive regions in the world threaten by rapid changes in climate and land use such as high latitudes ecosystems, tropical forest in Southeast Asia, and ecosystems dominated by Monsoon climate.

Focusing on Brazil, this book approaches the term "e;heritage"e; from not only a historical and architectural point of view, but also considers its artistic, archaeological, natural, ethnological and industrial aspects.

This volume is entirely devoted to the life and work of the world's most famous geomorphologist, William Morris Davis (1850-1934).

This book provides in detail assessment of the health of Mahananda river, an important head water river system in the Darjeeling Sub-Himalayas which is getting altered rapidly with the pace of human interference.

Nineteenth-Century Energies explores the idea of 'energy', a concept central to new directions in interdisciplinary studies today.

Few parts of our British islands can compare with our sea coasts as plant hunting ground.

The Mediterranean region has been shaped by human activity and maintained by traditional practices of land use for centuries.