Physical geography and topography

Taken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses Florida's wetlands, including interior wetlands, seepage wetlands, marshes, flowing-water swamps, beaches and marine marshes, and mangrove swamps.

This 2002 book provides a cultural and ecological history of European impact on the Great Barrier Reef.

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

Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) is the current state-of-art methodology to provide weather prediction at different spatial and time scales to serve user community.

The Amazon Basin contains the largest and most diverse tropical rainforest in the world.

This book includes a selection of the best papers presented at the Jinan Forum on Geography and Ecological Sustainability held in Guangzhou, China, from 17 to 19 February 2017, as well as several invited papers.

As coastal populations burgeon, problems of erosion, pollution and coastal change are becoming ever more serious and necessitate scientifically informed management strategies.

Offering new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores the dynamic relationship between settlement, climate, and colonization, covering everything from the physical impact of climate on agriculture and land development to the development of "folk" and government meteorologies.

'Will undoubtedly become a classic narrative of this scenically magnificent, legend-rich and geologically unique part of Scotland' Cameron McNeish, The HeraldRising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland's Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and ridgelines: the Cuillin.

Advances in high spatial resolution mapping capabilities and the new rules established by the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States for the operation of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) have provided new opportunities to acquire aerial data at a lower cost and more safely versus other methods.

This book provides a balanced account of the global environmental issues which threaten our society and which we neglect at our peril.

Soils and sediments influence current processes, preserve evidence of past processes, indicate evolutionary phases in landscapes and provide a basis for relative and absolute chronologies.

This book provides an overview of ninety key concepts which often trouble those who are new to researching within the social sciences.

An unrivalled, comprehensive introduction to the natural processes in our world.

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world's forests.

This volume discusses important issues associated with agricultural disaster risk, resilient agriculture, and livelihood.

Wetlands are an important, and sadly diminishing, habitat in many parts of the world.

Presenting a broad range of case studies, this book explores rural social movements contesting natural resource development initiatives.

It is now well accepted that deforestation is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions and of climate change, with forests representing major sinks for carbon.

This book explores how the transnational legal process for REDD+ has affected human rights in developing countries.

For thousands of years, humans have found themselves vulnerable to plagues of desert locusts.

This book provides a detailed description of how Python can be used to give insight into the flow of groundwater based on analytic solutions.

The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity.

The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth and its people.

Global Warming and East Asia analyses the domestic politics, foreign policy and international relations of climate change in East and Southeast Asia, The countries of this important region are often disproportionately affected by climate change and, as they expand and develop, their contribution to the problem grows.

Global wetlands exhibit significant differences in both hydrology and species composition and range from moss-dominated arctic peatlands to seasonally-flooded tropical floodplains.

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

In this re-evaluation of the basic postulates of geomorphology, first published in 1982, Alistair Pitty examines the subject within its scientific context, arguing that coherence in geomorphology can be demonstrated despite the many apparent divergences, which should themselves be regarded as poles within a spectrum of opinion.

A comprehensive introduction to coastal storms and their associated impacts Coastal Storms offers students and professionals in the field a comprehensive overview and groundbreaking text that is specifically devoted to the analysis of coastal storms.

This book focuses on River Basin Organizations as the key institutions for managing internationally shared water resources.

The book provides a review of the most relevant topics on the booming discipline of palaeohydrology and focuses on previous extreme events like exceptional floods and droughts.

This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management.

Increasingly used to represent climatic, biogeochemical, and ecological systems, computer modeling has become an important tool that should be in every environmental professional's toolbox.

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

This edited collection, first published in 1987, provides a comparative analysis of different approaches to urban modelling, and lays the foundations for the possibility of integration and a more unified field.

This book, first published in 1980, is a timely and comprehensive appraisal of thresholds in geomorphology.

How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale projects that might actively alter the climate.

Tropical Environments presents a comprehensive introduction to the complex systems of the tropics.

These proceedings record the results of climate change in many areas which are hyper-arid deserts today but which, almost cyclically, at intervals of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, have had a much more humid climate.

'The smaller we come to feel ourselves compared with the mountain, the nearer we come to participating in its greatness.

Our North American forests are no longer the wild areas of past centuries; they are an economic and ecological resource undergoing changes from both natural and management disturbances.

A statement from the world''s leading geomorphologists on the state of, and potential changes to, the environment.

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

Middle East and Mediterranean region locates at a crossroad of global climatic patterns.

Maps are tools used to understand space, discover territories, communicate information, and explain the results of geographical analysis.

Mountains, Climate and Biodiversity: A comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis for students and researchers Mountains are topographically complex formations that play a fundamental role in regional and continental-scale climates.