Geography

The economic activities of humanity, particularly during the last couple of cen- turies, have had a profound impact on the natural environment.

Fluvial Geomorphology of Great Britain studies the development of river-made land forms, together with the associated fluvial processes.

This volume arises from the work of the International Geographical Union Working Group on Regional Hydrological Response to Climate Change and Global Warming under the chairmanship of Professor Changming Liu (1992-96).

The chapters in this book are revised versions of papers initially presented at a confer- ence on Universities and their cities held in Amsterdam on March 27-29 1996.

This book evolved from a collaborative research project between the University of Manitoba, Canada and Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, which commenced in 1984 to study the problems of river channel migration, rural population displacement and land relocation in Bangladesh.

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the second workshop on Evaluation and Planning held at Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Mediterraneennes (CIHEAM) in Valenzano (Bari) in November 1993.

Forests comprise the greatest storage of carbon on land, provide fuel for millions, are the habitat for most terrestrial biodiversity, and are critical to the economies of many countries.

On the basis of a total of thirteen case examples from the Tien Shan, Karakorum, Himalaya and Tangula Shan (central Tibet), the risk potential and hazards are inferred from the development of landscape during the Quaternary.

Space is no longer the special, protected domain that it was in the past.

The arid frontier has been a challenge for humanity from time immemorial.

Authors, scholars and scientists whose mother tongue is not one of the major languages of international communication are seriously disadvantaged.

The chapters in this volume are edited versions of papers presented at the NATO Ad- vanced Research Workshop on Environmental Change Adaptation and Security held in Budapest, Hungary, from October 16 - 18, 1997.

Sedimentation and Tectonics in Rift Basins: Red Sea - Gulf of Aden presents new case studies and synthesises the results of recent research on the sedimentological evolution of the Red Sea - Gulf of Aden rift system.

A comprehensive source book for anybody interested in the potential of remote sensing and GIS technology for the Eastern Europe countries in transition, and less developed countries in general.

here ofexchange, and borrowing in debates between these disciplines, all the more so, as we shall see a little further on, as the analysis of the Central and East European transformations has also contributed to introduce into political science and sociology theoretical systematizations first formulated in economics.

Regional development is intrinsically related to the way in which the land is used.

During the last two centuries, the political map of Europe has changed considerably.

International comparisons of economic institutions and government poli- cies are fraught with difficulties.

The issue of maintaining a balanced relationship between tourism and the environment has received considerable attention since the 1970s.

The Ninth International Conference on Basement Tectonics was held at the Australian National University in Canberra 2-6 July 1990.

This book contains twenty-eight papers by participants in the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "e;Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space,"e; held in Las Navas del Maxques, Spain, July 8-20, 1990.

Here is a guide to the most beautiful and important sites of geological interest in England and Wales.

During the past decade there has been a renewed interest in active sonar systems at both low and medium frequencies.

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The Lowland South American World showcases cutting-edge research on the anthropology of Lowland South America, providing both an in-depth knowledge of Lowland South American life ways and engaging readers in urgent social, environmental, and political issues in the contemporary world.

Optical remote sensing is of invaluable help in understanding the marine environment and its biogeochemical and physical processes.

Acoustic Signal Processing for Ocean Explortion has two major goals: (i) to present signal processing algorithms that take into account the models of acoustic propagation in the ocean and; (ii) to give a perspective of the broad set of techniques, problems, and applications arising in ocean exploration.

Neural nets offer a fascinating new strategy for spatial analysis, and their application holds enormous potential for the geographic sciences.

In The Asian City the Asian urbanisation processes, nature and characteristics of the 1990s have been analyzed by countries, by comparing different countries and in an international context.

Over the past 20 years the costs of natural disasters have escalated significantly.

The diversity of life is displayed by a diversity the biodiversity elements.

The principal aim of this volume is to provide descriptions of Sites of Special Scientific Interest, selected as part of the Geological Conservation Review, that yield evidence for the Pleistocene history of the River Thames and its tributaries.

A multidisciplinary and multifaceted approach is employed to identify principal ecosystems and natural resources in the U.

Water is vital to life, maintenance of ecological balance, economic development, and sustenance of civilization.

Water is vital to life, maintenance of ecological balance, economic development, and sustenance of civilization.

Water is vital to life, maintenance of ecological balance, economic development, and sustenance of civilization.

A significant part of understanding how people use geographic information and technology concerns human cognition.

Inevitably, at a panel discussion not too long ago comparing planning cultures the discussion turned on the issue of globalisation.

by LOUIS GUTTMAN Fitting it is for the World Mental Health Year that a funda- mental research monograph should appear, devoted to one of the universal - but perhaps inadequately recognized - problems of our times: mental health and personal adjustment problems of immigrants.

Who, in 1945 and 1946, could have foreseen that the economic and social integration of the millions of Germans from the East expelled into West Germany after Wodd War II would largely be accomplished in a few years?

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The Netherlands is an unusual nation in many ways.

Intense uplift of the Tibetan Plateau in Late Cenozoic Era is one of the most important events in geological history of the Earth.

The book addresses critically the question: "e;What is the societal impact of urban and regional planning?

Geological processes affect the earth itself and human society.

This book presents the proceedings and the outcomes of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Integrated Technologies for Environmental Monitoring and Information Production, which was held in Marmaris, Turkey, between September 10- 14, 200 I.

Optics of Cosmic Dust describes what we currently know about cosmic dust, how we know it, and the research efforts undertaken to provide that knowledge.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have developed rapidly in recent years and now provide powerful tools for the capture, manipulation, integration, interrogation, modelling, analysis and visualisation of data - tools that are already used for policy support in a wide range of areas at almost all geographic and administrative levels.

The 15th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster offered a timely opportunity for an expert assessment of the current situation and suggestions for approaches to managing the information associated with the site and surrounding contaminated territories.