Physical geography and topography

This book examines the nexus of cities and oceans and the interrelations between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 11 and 14, just after the first two critical years following the milestone year of hope in 2015.

A systematic, unifying approach to the dynamics of the ocean and atmosphere is given in this book, with emphasis on the larger-scale motions (from a few kilometers to global scale).

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

This book illustrates the first connection between the map user community and the developers of digital map processing technologies by providing several applications, challenges, and best practices in working with historical maps.

Advanced Mathematical Tools for Control Engineers: Volume 1 provides a blend of Matrix and Linear Algebra Theory, Analysis, Differential Equations, Optimization, Optimal and Robust Control.

This book discusses the Lagoa Santa Karst, which has been internationally known since the pioneering studies of the Danish naturalist Peter Lund in the early 1800s.

Until recently, the prevailing view of marine life at high latitudes has been that organisms enter a general resting state during the dark Polar Night and that the system only awakens with the return of the sun.

Spatial Data Science introduces fundamental aspects of spatial data that every data scientist should know before they start working with spatial data.

This book gives a comprehensive view of the strengths and limits of the interdisciplinary methods that work together to form the geohistorical approach to geographical and geological sciences.

Though largely inaccessible, the geochemistry of Earth's mantle and core can be examined through a wide variety of approaches.

This revision maintains the position of Forest Ecosystems as the one source for the latest information on the advanced methods that have enhanced our understating of forest ecosystems.

This book provides comprehensive and in-depth explanations of all topics related to quantitative remote sensing and its applications in terrestrial, biospheric, hydrospheric, and atmospheric studies.

Polar Ice and Global Warming in Cryosphere Regions is based on recent and past climate variabilities data gathered through satellites and spatial-temporal analysis to explain the role of global warming on cryosphere regions such as high-latitude Himalaya, Arctic and Antarctic regions, and the surrounding Southern Ocean and Arctic Ocean.

This book provides an introduction to sustainable aquaculture practices, focusing on how we develop social, economic and environmental resilience.

Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact.

This accessible shortform book describes storm surge forecasting to enable port managers and practitioners to forecast these and mitigate their effects.

This book shows how to successfully adapt entropy measures to the complexity of environmental data.

The Global Forest Products Model (GFPM) book provides a complete introduction to this widely applied computer model.

As water's significance as a geopolitical resource is poised to surpass that of oil, this book explores the adaptation of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services in the Middle East to climate change challenges, leveraging the Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus for a sustainable transition and resilient solutions.

Die Faszination des Waldes erleben und weitergeben – doch wie gelingt das auf nachhaltige und inspirierende Weise?

Even before the myth of Prometheus, fire played a crucial ecological role around the world.

There is an affirming transformation, basically in the form of core methodology, in recent geomorphological studies.

This book covers fluid dynamics and fluvial processes, including basics applicable to open channel flow followed by turbulence characteristics related to sediment-laden flows.

This book covers fluid dynamics and fluvial processes, including basics applicable to open channel flow followed by turbulence characteristics related to sediment-laden flows.

Dieser praktische Leitfaden bietet eine fundierte Einführung in die Dendrologie und vermittelt wichtiges Fachwissen zur Bestimmung von Baumarten.

The treetops of the world's forests are where discovery and opportunity abound, however they have been relatively inaccessible until recently.

As technology continues to saturate modern society, agriculture has started to adopt digital computing and data-driven innovations.

This book seeks to showcase the ongoing challenges of water resource and its management through innovative and cutting-edge approaches (flooding and droughts and their respective impacts; spatial and urban planning; early warning systems; estimation of losses; water resource in the age of global climate change; risk communication; meteorology; integrated analysis; risk mitigation; infrastructures; nature-based management; watershed management; transport; legal assessment; vulnerability analysis; public participation; or case studies).

This book enhances the discussion of anthropized soils with photographs of soil profiles and provides general information about soils in Japan, using data on their physical and chemical properties.

Nine nautical miles off the east coast of peninsular Malaysia, strung along the middle arc of the Seribuat Archipelago, the roving eye will spot a clutch of sun-washed islands.

With the rapid increase of world population, the global water shortage is set to be the major crises of the twenty-first century; that is, population dynamics (growth, age distribution, urbanization and migration) create pressures on freshwater resources due to the increased water demands and pollution.

The study of the Quaternary ice age has revolutionized ideas about Earth system change and the pace of landscape and ecosystem dynamics.

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur.

Floods and flash floods with hydro-meteorological and tropical cyclones are the some of the most devastating natural disasters causing massive damages to natural and man-made features.

This book, based on extensive international collaborative research, highlights the state-of-the-art design of "e;smart living"e; for metropolises, megacities, and metacities, as well as at the community and neighbourhood level.

The Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology is an essential resource covering all aspects of forest ecology from a global perspective.

The Routledge Handbook of Field Research presents a comprehensive, go-to resource for staff and students in preparing for and thinking about the doing of field research, including both individual fieldwork and group field classes.

This book deals with every aspect of oceanography in detail including various aspects of physical, chemical, geological, and biological discourse.

Originally published in 1986, this comprehensive and integrated text covers both physical and human geography.

Originally published in 1986, this comprehensive and integrated text covers both physical and human geography.

The climate crisis is on the brink of its threshold of no return, and there is great urgency for finding a viable solution to this existential threat.

The climate crisis is on the brink of its threshold of no return, and there is great urgency for finding a viable solution to this existential threat.