
Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change
Cambridge University Press
Published on 2. July 2009
Book
Hardback
450 pages
978-0-521-87812-8 (ISBN)
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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.
Reviews / Votes
Review of the hardback: 'I highly recommend this volume to any geoscientist interested in the present and future of our planet ...' Geologos Review of the hardback: '... a benchmark text for its subject and it highlights a topic that is of critical importance for humankind.' The Holocene '... I would like to specifically commend the reconstructions of ice sheets in the chapter on ice sheets and ice caps. There are also many good conceptual model diagrams. Overall, this is a really good reference work. It should have a place on the shelves of most practising geomorphologists and graduate students.' James Shulmeister, University of QueenslandMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
36 tones 16 plates 50 tables
Dimensions
Height: 252 mm
Width: 194 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1150 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-87812-8 (9780521878128)
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Olav Slaymaker | Thomas Spencer | Christine Embleton-Hamann
Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change
Book
01/2012
Cambridge University Press
€87.20
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Olav Slaymaker | Thomas Spencer | Christine Embleton-Hamann
Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change
Book
01/2012
Cambridge University Press
€87.20
Available immediately

Olav Slaymaker | Thomas Spencer | Christine Embleton-Hamann
Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change
E-Book
09/2009
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Persons
Olav Slaymaker is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia. He is a Senior Associate of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Senior Fellow of St. John's College, University of British Columbia. He is a Former President of the Canadian Association of Geomorphologists and the International Association of Geomorphologists, and a Linton Medallist. He has held visiting professorships at the universities of Vienna, Canterbury, Oslo, Southern Illinois, Taiwan, and Nanjing. He has authored 120 refereed journal articles and 20 books on mountain environments, mountain geomorphology, the cryosphere and global environmental change. He is a Co-Editor in Chief of Catena and a member of nine international editorial boards. Tom Spencer is University Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Director of the Cambridge Coastal Research Unit and Official Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge University. His research interests in wetland hydrodynamics and sedimentation, coral reef geomorphology, sea level rise and coastal management have taken him to the Caribbean Sea, the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and Venice and its lagoon and the coastline of eastern England. He has authored and co-edited numerous books on coastal problems, environmental challenges and global environmental change. Christine Embleton-Hamann is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna. Her main interest is in alpine environments. Within this field she focuses on the history of ideas concerning the evolution of alpine environments, genesis and development of specific landforms, human impact on alpine environments, geomorphological hazards and risks and the assessment of scenic quality of alpine landscapes. She is past-president of the Austrian Commission on Geomorphology and Secretary-General of the International Association of Geomorphologists Working Group.
Editor
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
University of Cambridge
Universitaet Wien, Austria
Content
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.