Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change

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.