Geomorphology and global environmental change
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Geomorphology and global environmental change
Cambridge University Press, 2011, c2009
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Note
"First published 2009, Frst paperback edition 2011"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How will global environmental change affect the landscape and our interaction with it? Apart from climate change, there are other important catalysts of landscape change, including relief, hydroclimate and runoff, sea level variations and human activity. This volume summarises the geomorphic implications of global environmental change, analysing such effects on lakes, rivers, coasts, reefs, rainforests, savannas, deserts, glacial features, and mountains. Providing a benchmark statement from the world's leading geomorphologists on the state of, and potential changes to, the environment, this book is invaluable for advanced courses on geomorphology and environmental science, and as a reference for research scientists. Interdisciplinary in scope, with a primary audience of Earth and environmental scientists, geographers, geomorphologists and ecologists, it also has a wider reach to those concerned with the social, economic and political issues raised by global environmental change, and is useful to policy makers and environmental managers.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Landscape, and landscape scale processes as the unfilled niche in the global environmental change debate: an introduction O. Slaymaker, T. Spencer and S. Dadson
- 2. Mountains O. Slaymaker and C. Embleton-Hamann
- 3. Lakes and lake catchments K. Kashiwaya, O. Slaymaker and M. Church
- 4. Rivers M. Church, T. P. Burt, V. J. Galay and G. M. Kondolf
- 5. Estuaries, coastal marshes, tidal flats and coastal dunes D. J. Reed, R. Davidson-Arnott and G. M. E. Perillo
- 6. Beaches, cliffs and deltas M. J. F. Stive, P. J. Cowell and R. J. Nicholls
- 7. Coral reefs P. Kench, C. Perry and T. Spencer
- 8. Tropical rainforests R. P. D. Walsh and W. H. Blake
- 9. Tropical savannas M. E. Meadows and D. S. G. Thomas
- 10. Deserts N. Lancaster
- 11. Mediterranean M. Sala
- 12. Temperate forests and rangelands R. C. Sidle and T. P. Burt
- 13. Tundra and permafrost dominated taiga M.-F. Andre and O. Anisimov
- 14. Ice sheets and ice caps D. Sugden
- 15. Landscape, landscape scale processes and global environmental change: synthesis and new agendas for the twenty-first century T. Spencer, O. Slaymaker and C. Embleton-Hamann
- Index.
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