Physical Geography
1st Edition
Published on 18. September 2005
Book
Hardback
1632 pages
978-1-4129-0787-3 (ISBN)
Description
This four volume set begins by examining the knowledge of physical geography: from the quantitative revolution to current state of mathematical models. The principal environment spheres - for example, the biosphere - are examined to show the greater concern with environmental dynamics now central to the discipline. This work includes studies of environmental change, looking at short term as well as longer term change, and evaluating aspects of global change. Volume IV focuses on the total physical environment, examining human activity and human impact; environmental hazards; and applied physical geography.
SAGE Fundamentals of Geography is a series of authoritative Major Works in Human Geography and Physical Geography edited by internationally recognised scholars. The first two in the series are overview volumes on these two main subject areas. Taken together, these two sets demonstrate what is singular about the geographical imagination and the unique contribution its diverse perspectives makes to human science and natural science, as well as the link it provides between the human and the natural.
SAGE Fundamentals of Geography is a series of authoritative Major Works in Human Geography and Physical Geography edited by internationally recognised scholars. The first two in the series are overview volumes on these two main subject areas. Taken together, these two sets demonstrate what is singular about the geographical imagination and the unique contribution its diverse perspectives makes to human science and natural science, as well as the link it provides between the human and the natural.
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Four-Volume Set
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
3095 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4129-0787-3 (9781412907873)
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Person
Ken Gregory obtained his BSc, PhD and DSc from the University of London, was made CBE in 2007 for services to geography and higher education, and is currently President of the British Society for Geomorphology. Research interests include river channel change and management, palaeohydrology and the development of physical geography, and he has written more than 140 papers, authored and edited 30 books including The Earth's Land Surface (2010) and The SAGE Handbook of Geomorphology (2011). He has 3 Honorary degrees, and received the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (1993), the Linton award of the BGRG (1999), and the Geographical medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (2000).
Content
Volume One: The Scope of Physical Geography
PART ONE: RECENT EVOLUTION
The Role and Relations of Physical Geography - R J Chorley
Geomorphology and General Systems Theory - R J Chorley
Developments in Physical Geography - R Gardner
Changing Physical Environment and Changing Physical Geography - K J Gregory
Valuing Physical Geography - K J Gregory
Restructuring Physical Geography - K J Gregory, A M Gurnell and G E Petts
Previous Actors and Current Influences - P Sims
Trends and Fashions in Physical Geography
PART TWO: POSITION STATEMENTS
Particulars in Context - L R Barrett
Maintaining a Balance in Soil Geography
Methodology in Climatology - A M Carleton
Imaging Spectrometry - P J Curran
The Nature of Physical Geography - A S Goudie
A View from the Drylands
Atmospheric Physiography and Meteorological Modelling - A Henderson-Sellers
The Future Role of Geographers in Understanding Climate
Environmental Stability - M R Moss
Biogeomorphology Revisited - L A Naylor, H A Viles and N E A Carter
Looking Towards the Future
Geography and the Physical Sciences Tradition - K S Richards
Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives on Physical Geography with Emphasis on Geomorphology - B L Rhoads and C E Thorn
Lilies and Peacocks - I G Simmons
A View of Biogeography
PART THREE: CHALLENGES
The Re-Enchantment of Geomorphology - V R Baker and C R Twidale
Changing the Nature of Physical Geography - K J Gregory
A Room with a View - K K Hirschboeck
Some Geographic Perspectives on Dilettantism, Cross-Training and Scale in Hydrology
New Climatologists for a New Climatology - A W Perry
Methodology, Scale and the Field of Dreams - J D Phillips
Laws, Contingencies, Irreversible Divergence and Physical Geography - J D Phillips
Theory, Measurement and Testing in 'Real' Geomorphology and Physical Geography - K Richards et al
Beyond Pragmatism - B L Rhoads
The Value of Philosophical Discourse for Physical Geography
Biogeography and Ecology in Crisis - P Stott
The Urgent Need for a New Metalanguage
Towards a Non-Equilibrium Ecology - S Sullivan
Perspectives from an Arid Land
Volume 2: Environmental Dynamics
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF PROCESS
Geographic Evaluation of Climatic and Climatogenetic Geomorphology - L Holzner and G D Weaver
A Nine-Unit Hypothetical Landsurface Model - J B Dalyrmple, A J Conacher and R J Blong
Climate, Models and Geography - A Henderson-Sellers
The Future of Modelling in Physical Geography - M J Kirkby
Magnitude and Frequency of Forces in Geomorphic Processes - M G Wolman and J P Miller
Relative Scales of Time and Effectiveness of Climate in Watershed Geomorphology - M G Wolman and R A Gerson
PART TWO: SUMMARIES AND REVIEWS
Natural Hazards - D Alexander
Physical and Boundary Layer Climatology - A J Brazel et al
Hydrology - N J Clifford
The Changing Paradigm
Geomorphic Thresholds in Riverine Landscapes - M Church
Subsurface Influences - D R Coates
Hierarchies and Spatial Scale in Process Geomorphology - D H De Boer
A Review
Glacial Erosional Landforms - N F Glasser and M R Bennett
Origins and Significance for Palaeoglaciology
Glacial Geomorphology - J M Harbor
Modelling, Processes and Landforms
Environmental Modelling - S Lane
Coastal Geomorphology through the Looking Glass - D J Sherman and B O Bauer
The Ecology of Erosion - J B Thornes
Soil Processes and Their Significance - S Trudgill
Rainfall, Runoff and Erosion of the Land - D E Walling
A Global View
Quantifying Chaos in the Atmosphere - R W Washington
Tectonic Geomorphology, Uplift Rates and Geomorphic Response in New Zealand - P W Williams
PART THREE: FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Fluvial Geomorphology - D G Smith
Where Do We Go from Here?
Downscaling General Circulation Model Output - R A Wilby and T M L Wigley
A Review of Methods and Limitations
Volume Three: Environmental Change
PART ONE: SOME FOUNDATIONS
Evidence for Environmental Change - M Bell and M J C Walker
The Rate Law in Fluvial Geomorphology - W L Graf
The Future of the Past - F Oldfield
Time, Space and Causality in Geomorphology - S A Schumm and R W Lichty
Geomorphic Thresholds - S A Schumm
The Concept and Its Applications
A Cycle of Sedimentation and Erosion in Urban River Channels - M G Wolman
PART TWO: SUMMARIES, REVIEWS AND EXAMPLES
Environmental Change in the Kalahari - A J Doughill, D S G Thomas and A L Heathwaite
Integrated Land Degradation Studies for Nonequilibrium Dryland Environments
The Changing Human Impact - A S Goudie
Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change - K L O'Brien
Quaternary Pollen Analysis - H Seppa and K D Bennett
Recent Progress in Palaeoecology and Palaeoclimatology
The Nature of Global Environmental Change - H O Slaymaker and T Spencer
Past Climates and Future Greenhouse Warming - F A Street Perrott and N Roberts
Late Quaternary Instability in the Humid and Sub-Humid Tropics - M F Thomas
PART THREE: PROSPECTS AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY LINKS
Sudden Climate Transitions during the Quaternary - J Adams, M Maslin and E Thomas
Fluvial Processes and Environmental Change - A G Brown and T Quine
An Overview
Learning from the Past - A G Brown
Palaeohydrology and Palaeoecology
The Changing Geomorphology of the Humid Tropics - A Gupta
Large Increases in Flood Magnitude in Response to Modest Changes in Climate - J C Knox
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet - D E Sugden
Unstable Ice or Unstable Ideas?
Changing Rates of Overbank Sedimentation on the Floodplains of British Rivers during the past 100 Years - D E Walling and Q He
Volume Four: Cultural Physical Geography
PART ONE: SOME FOUNDATIONS
Human Ecology (Cultural Ecology) - D Alexander
The Realm of Cultural-Human Ecology - K W Butzer
Adaptation and Change in Historical Perspective
Geomorphic Engineering - D R Coates
Evaluating Environmental Potential - V Gardiner
Preface, Introduction, Propsect to Design with Nature - I L McHarg
Twenty Years of Systematic Physical Geography - M D Newson
Issues for a 'New Environmental Age'
Landscape and Environment - N Spedding
Biophysical Processes, Biophysical Forms
PART TWO: PERTINENT CONTRIBUTIONS
Towards an Approach to Sustainable River Restoration - A Brookes and F D Shields
The Assessment of Land Resources - D A Davidson
Achievements and New Challenges
Geomorphology and Natural Hazards - P A Gares, D J Sherman and K F Nordstrom
Dam Nation - W L Graf
A Geographic Census of American Dams and Their Large-Scale Hydrologic Impacts
Sustainable Development and Sustainable Landscapes - R Haines-Young
Defining a New Paradigm for Landscape Ecology
Landscape Ecology and Biogeography - J A Kupfer
Geography and the Global Environment - D M Liverman
Ethics and Sustainability - M G Reed and O Slaymaker
A Preliminary Perspective
Cultural Climatology - J Thornes and G McGregor
PART THREE: FURTHER POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS
Damage Control - W L Graf
Restoring the Physical Integrity of America's Rivers
Land Reclamation and Deep Ecology - M J Haigh
In Search of a More Meaningful Physical Geography
Climate Whispers - A Henderson Sellers
Media Communication about Climate Change
Biotechnology and Environmental Quality - A M Mannion
Civic Science and Global Environmental Change - T O'Riordan
Human Impacts on the Environment - J D Phillips
Unpredictability and the Primacy of Place
Human Activity Transforming and Designing River Landscapes - K J Gregory
A Review Perspective
The 'Real' World and Its Alternatives - I G Simmons
PART ONE: RECENT EVOLUTION
The Role and Relations of Physical Geography - R J Chorley
Geomorphology and General Systems Theory - R J Chorley
Developments in Physical Geography - R Gardner
Changing Physical Environment and Changing Physical Geography - K J Gregory
Valuing Physical Geography - K J Gregory
Restructuring Physical Geography - K J Gregory, A M Gurnell and G E Petts
Previous Actors and Current Influences - P Sims
Trends and Fashions in Physical Geography
PART TWO: POSITION STATEMENTS
Particulars in Context - L R Barrett
Maintaining a Balance in Soil Geography
Methodology in Climatology - A M Carleton
Imaging Spectrometry - P J Curran
The Nature of Physical Geography - A S Goudie
A View from the Drylands
Atmospheric Physiography and Meteorological Modelling - A Henderson-Sellers
The Future Role of Geographers in Understanding Climate
Environmental Stability - M R Moss
Biogeomorphology Revisited - L A Naylor, H A Viles and N E A Carter
Looking Towards the Future
Geography and the Physical Sciences Tradition - K S Richards
Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives on Physical Geography with Emphasis on Geomorphology - B L Rhoads and C E Thorn
Lilies and Peacocks - I G Simmons
A View of Biogeography
PART THREE: CHALLENGES
The Re-Enchantment of Geomorphology - V R Baker and C R Twidale
Changing the Nature of Physical Geography - K J Gregory
A Room with a View - K K Hirschboeck
Some Geographic Perspectives on Dilettantism, Cross-Training and Scale in Hydrology
New Climatologists for a New Climatology - A W Perry
Methodology, Scale and the Field of Dreams - J D Phillips
Laws, Contingencies, Irreversible Divergence and Physical Geography - J D Phillips
Theory, Measurement and Testing in 'Real' Geomorphology and Physical Geography - K Richards et al
Beyond Pragmatism - B L Rhoads
The Value of Philosophical Discourse for Physical Geography
Biogeography and Ecology in Crisis - P Stott
The Urgent Need for a New Metalanguage
Towards a Non-Equilibrium Ecology - S Sullivan
Perspectives from an Arid Land
Volume 2: Environmental Dynamics
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF PROCESS
Geographic Evaluation of Climatic and Climatogenetic Geomorphology - L Holzner and G D Weaver
A Nine-Unit Hypothetical Landsurface Model - J B Dalyrmple, A J Conacher and R J Blong
Climate, Models and Geography - A Henderson-Sellers
The Future of Modelling in Physical Geography - M J Kirkby
Magnitude and Frequency of Forces in Geomorphic Processes - M G Wolman and J P Miller
Relative Scales of Time and Effectiveness of Climate in Watershed Geomorphology - M G Wolman and R A Gerson
PART TWO: SUMMARIES AND REVIEWS
Natural Hazards - D Alexander
Physical and Boundary Layer Climatology - A J Brazel et al
Hydrology - N J Clifford
The Changing Paradigm
Geomorphic Thresholds in Riverine Landscapes - M Church
Subsurface Influences - D R Coates
Hierarchies and Spatial Scale in Process Geomorphology - D H De Boer
A Review
Glacial Erosional Landforms - N F Glasser and M R Bennett
Origins and Significance for Palaeoglaciology
Glacial Geomorphology - J M Harbor
Modelling, Processes and Landforms
Environmental Modelling - S Lane
Coastal Geomorphology through the Looking Glass - D J Sherman and B O Bauer
The Ecology of Erosion - J B Thornes
Soil Processes and Their Significance - S Trudgill
Rainfall, Runoff and Erosion of the Land - D E Walling
A Global View
Quantifying Chaos in the Atmosphere - R W Washington
Tectonic Geomorphology, Uplift Rates and Geomorphic Response in New Zealand - P W Williams
PART THREE: FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Fluvial Geomorphology - D G Smith
Where Do We Go from Here?
Downscaling General Circulation Model Output - R A Wilby and T M L Wigley
A Review of Methods and Limitations
Volume Three: Environmental Change
PART ONE: SOME FOUNDATIONS
Evidence for Environmental Change - M Bell and M J C Walker
The Rate Law in Fluvial Geomorphology - W L Graf
The Future of the Past - F Oldfield
Time, Space and Causality in Geomorphology - S A Schumm and R W Lichty
Geomorphic Thresholds - S A Schumm
The Concept and Its Applications
A Cycle of Sedimentation and Erosion in Urban River Channels - M G Wolman
PART TWO: SUMMARIES, REVIEWS AND EXAMPLES
Environmental Change in the Kalahari - A J Doughill, D S G Thomas and A L Heathwaite
Integrated Land Degradation Studies for Nonequilibrium Dryland Environments
The Changing Human Impact - A S Goudie
Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change - K L O'Brien
Quaternary Pollen Analysis - H Seppa and K D Bennett
Recent Progress in Palaeoecology and Palaeoclimatology
The Nature of Global Environmental Change - H O Slaymaker and T Spencer
Past Climates and Future Greenhouse Warming - F A Street Perrott and N Roberts
Late Quaternary Instability in the Humid and Sub-Humid Tropics - M F Thomas
PART THREE: PROSPECTS AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY LINKS
Sudden Climate Transitions during the Quaternary - J Adams, M Maslin and E Thomas
Fluvial Processes and Environmental Change - A G Brown and T Quine
An Overview
Learning from the Past - A G Brown
Palaeohydrology and Palaeoecology
The Changing Geomorphology of the Humid Tropics - A Gupta
Large Increases in Flood Magnitude in Response to Modest Changes in Climate - J C Knox
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet - D E Sugden
Unstable Ice or Unstable Ideas?
Changing Rates of Overbank Sedimentation on the Floodplains of British Rivers during the past 100 Years - D E Walling and Q He
Volume Four: Cultural Physical Geography
PART ONE: SOME FOUNDATIONS
Human Ecology (Cultural Ecology) - D Alexander
The Realm of Cultural-Human Ecology - K W Butzer
Adaptation and Change in Historical Perspective
Geomorphic Engineering - D R Coates
Evaluating Environmental Potential - V Gardiner
Preface, Introduction, Propsect to Design with Nature - I L McHarg
Twenty Years of Systematic Physical Geography - M D Newson
Issues for a 'New Environmental Age'
Landscape and Environment - N Spedding
Biophysical Processes, Biophysical Forms
PART TWO: PERTINENT CONTRIBUTIONS
Towards an Approach to Sustainable River Restoration - A Brookes and F D Shields
The Assessment of Land Resources - D A Davidson
Achievements and New Challenges
Geomorphology and Natural Hazards - P A Gares, D J Sherman and K F Nordstrom
Dam Nation - W L Graf
A Geographic Census of American Dams and Their Large-Scale Hydrologic Impacts
Sustainable Development and Sustainable Landscapes - R Haines-Young
Defining a New Paradigm for Landscape Ecology
Landscape Ecology and Biogeography - J A Kupfer
Geography and the Global Environment - D M Liverman
Ethics and Sustainability - M G Reed and O Slaymaker
A Preliminary Perspective
Cultural Climatology - J Thornes and G McGregor
PART THREE: FURTHER POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS
Damage Control - W L Graf
Restoring the Physical Integrity of America's Rivers
Land Reclamation and Deep Ecology - M J Haigh
In Search of a More Meaningful Physical Geography
Climate Whispers - A Henderson Sellers
Media Communication about Climate Change
Biotechnology and Environmental Quality - A M Mannion
Civic Science and Global Environmental Change - T O'Riordan
Human Impacts on the Environment - J D Phillips
Unpredictability and the Primacy of Place
Human Activity Transforming and Designing River Landscapes - K J Gregory
A Review Perspective
The 'Real' World and Its Alternatives - I G Simmons