Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

Sedimentology is a core discipline of earth and environmental sciences.

This book is for geoscience students taking introductory or intermediate-level courses in igneous petrology, to help develop key skills (and confidence) in identifying igneous minerals, interpreting and allocating appropriate names to unknown rocks presented to them.

The global economic crisis of 2008 was precipitated by a housing market crash, thus highlighting the destabilizing influence of the property cycle upon the wider economy.

Through a series of case studies of low-status interactive and embodied servicing work, Working Bodies examines the theoretical and empirical nature of the shift to embodied work in service-dominated economies.

THE DICTIONARY OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Even better than before, the Dictionary is an essential tool for all human geographers and over the years has provided an invaluable guide to the changing boundaries and content of the discipline.

Urban areas contain a wide variety of open spaces, yet much of this has evolved under the pressures of human population with minimal management.

This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field.

This textbook is aimed at the majority of students, who need to quickly acquire a concise overview of soil science.

Igneous and metamorphic petrology has over the last twenty years expanded rapidly into a broad, multifaceted and increasingly quantitative science.

An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes and Earth Structures is an introduction to seismology and its role in the earth sciences, and is written for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students.

Rivers and Floodplains is concerned with the origin, geometry, water flow, sediment transport, erosion and deposition associated with modern alluvial rivers and floodplains, how they vary in time and space, and how this information is used to interpret deposits of ancient rivers and floodplains.

Coastal-Marine Conservation: Science and Policy introduces students and managers to complex conservation and management issues facing coastal nations of the world, their citizens, and international and non-governmental organizations.

Life on Earth has been evolving and interacting with the surface and atmosphere for almost four billion years.

Introduction to Ore-Forming Processes is the first senior undergraduate postgraduate textbook to focus specifically on the multiplicity of geological processes that result in the formation of mineral deposits.

Freshwater ecosystems are under increasing pressure as human populations grow and the need for clean water intensifies.

This book provides a sound introduction to the basic physical processes that dominate the workings of the Earth, its atmosphere and hydrosphere.

This introductory textbook examines diminishing terrestrial and aquatic habitats in the tropics, covering a broad range of topics including the fate of the coral reefs; the impact of agriculture, urbanization, and logging on habitat depletion; and the effects of fire on plants and animal survival.

Ecology of Coastal Waters with Implications for Management, Second Edition is the most up-to-date book available on coastal marine ecosystems.

Principles and Practice of Soil Science, Fourth Editionprovides a current and comprehensive introduction to soil science for students in the fields of environmental and agricultural science, ecology, soil and land management, natural resource management and environmental engineering.

The new edition of this widely respected text provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the effects of biological physical interactions in the oceans from the microscopic to the global scale.

Conservation and the Genetics of Populations gives a comprehensive overview of the essential background, concepts, and tools needed to understand how genetic information can be used to develop conservation plans for species threatened with extinction.

This accessible new textbook provides a thorough introduction to all aspects of groundwater systems and their management.

Global Coastal Changeprovides a comprehensive overview of the environmental factors changing the marine systems of the world including atmospheric changes, sea level rise, alterations in freshwater and sediment use and transport, toxins, overfishing, alien species, and eutrophication.

Introduction to Geomicrobiology is a timely and comprehensive overview of how microbial life has affected Earth's environment through time.

Environmental Sedimentology provides a comprehensive introduction to this rapidly expanding field which addresses the functioning and dynamics of contemporary sediment systems and how these systems respond to a range of both natural and anthropogenically-induced disturbance events.

Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of global warming.

In the new edition of this highly successful book, Malcolm Hunter and new co-author James Gibbs offer a thorough introduction to the fascinating and important field of conservation biology, focusing on what can be done to maintain biodiversity through management of ecosystems and populations.

This is the first textbook to consider all aspects of the cryosphere system in the context of global environmental change driven by human activity and climate.

Early Earth Systems provides a complete history of the Earth from its beginnings to the end of the Archaean.

Widely regarded as the most authoritative and comprehensive book in its field, the fourth edition of Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics includes new and substantially updated chapters to this highly praised text.

This book provides students with the skills to develop their own models for application in conservation biology and wildlife management.

Arsenic Pollution summarizes the most current research on the distribution and causes of arsenic pollution, its impact on health and agriculture, and solutions by way of water supply, treatment, and water resource management.

Adopting a 'global value chain' approach, Value Chain Struggles investigates the impact of new trading arrangements in the coffee and tea sectors on the lives and in the communities of growers in South India.

Utilizing environmental archival materials from the UK, State, Science and the Skies presents a groundbreaking historical account of the development of a state science of atmospheric pollution.

This book addresses the fundamental requirement for an interdisciplinary catchment based approach to managing and protecting water resources that crucially includes an understanding of land use and its management.

Fossils provide a powerful tool for the study of the nearly 4-billion-year history of life, and its role in the evolution of Earth systems.

Now in its second edition, Pollution of Lakes and Rivers provides essential insights into present-day water quality problems from an international perspective.

Fundamentals of Physical Volcanology is a comprehensive overview of the processes that control when and how volcanoes erupt.

A cross-disciplinary collection of 20 essays describing the journey to public scholarship, exploring the pleasures and perils associated with breaching the town-gown divide.

Contemporary privatization remakes nature-society as property and transforms people s relationships to themselves, each other, and the natural world.

This set of exercises has been created expressly for students and teachers of conservation biology and wildlife management who want to have an impact beyond the classroom.

The book focuses on geological history as the critical factor in determining the present biodiversity and landscapes of Amazonia.

Combining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town.

This first IAS Special Publication contains the oral presentations from a special symposium on pelagic sediments held in Zurich in 1973.

The UK Planning Regulations are a minefield for anyone looking to build a new home - and for those who are worried about the impact of a new planning application near their home.

A book of research articles focused on fluvial processesThe book is divided into a several main sections for ease of reference: Hydrodynamics and Bedforms; Present?

A special publication of the International Association of SedimentologistsThis comprehensive scientific book of more than 500 pages features chapters by various authors.

An edited collection of articles on oblique-slip mobile zone sedimentation Sedimentation in Oblique?

This first IAS Special Publication contains the oral presentations from a special symposium on pelagic sediments held in Zurich in 1973.

A special publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists The ebook entitled Modern and Ancient Lake Sediments provides the proceedings of a symposium held at the H.