Geomorphological Processes and Landscape Change
Britain In The Last 1000 Years
Published on 15. July 2011
320 pages
978-1-4443-9942-4 (ISBN)
Description
The expert contributors to this cutting edge volume provide anoverview of geomorphological process activity and landscape changein Britain over the past 1000 years. The range of the book isunusually broad, encompassing hillslope, valley floor andfloodplain, fluvial, estuarine and coastal processes.
* * Provides an overview of geomorphological process activity andlandscape change in Britain over the past 1000 years.
* The range of the book is unusually broad, encompassinghillslope, valley floor and floodplain, fluvial, estuarine andcoastal processes.
* Considers the relevance of technological and conceptualapproaches to understanding landscape dynamics.
* Examines key process environments highlighting significanttrends and the influence of human activity, and incorporatingexamples and modelling.
* Encourages geographers to look forward to the challenges thatgeomorphology faces in the new millennium.
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Reviews / Votes
"This significant and timely volume provides a contemporary body ofinformation on the function of geomorphological processes inlandscape and environmental management in human history."(Choice) "I enjoyed this particular journey through time, which containssome thought-provoking (though invariably qualitative) observationson the making of the British landscape." (Basil Gomez, Annals ofthe Association of American Geographers)More details
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David L. Higgitt | E. Mark Lee
Geomorphological Processes and Landscape Change
Britain In The Last 1000 Years
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Persons
David Higgitt, is Senior Lecturer in Geography at theUniversity of Durham. He has published widely in geomorphologicalliterature including a review series in Progress in PhysicalGeography, and recent papers in Catena, Geomorphology, EarthSurface Processes and Landforms, Environmental Management. He hasalso written several invited book chapters.
Mark Lee is Senior Research Associate, Department ofMarine Sciences and Coastal Management at the University ofNewcastle Upon Tyne. As a consultant geomorphologist he hasextensive experience of working on engineering geomorphologyprojects (especially coastal management) in UK and overseas. Haswritten numerous papers in geomorphological literature includingauthoring the recent DoE overviews on soil erosion and landslidingin the UK.
Content
List of Figures vii
List of Tables xi
List of Contributors xiii
Preface xv
Figure Acknowledgements xvii
Chapter 1 A Brief Time of History 1
David L. Higgitt
Chapter 2 Back A'long: a Millennial Geomorphology 27
Denys Brunsden
Chapter 3 The Evolution of Hillslope Processes 61
David K. C. Jones
Chapter 4 Valley-floor and Floodplain Processes 90
Barbara T. Rumsby
Chapter 5 Fluvial Processes 116
Janet M. Hooke
Chapter 6 Estuaries and Coasts: Morphological Adjustments andProcess Domains 147
E. Mark Lee
Chapter 7 Sediment Transfer in Upland Environments 190
David L. Higgitt, Jeff Warburton and Martin G. Evans
Chapter 8 Fine Particulate Sediment Transfers in Lowland RuralEnvironments 215
Ian D. L. Foster
Chapter 9 Living with Natural Hazards: the Costs and ManagementFramework 237
E. Mark Lee
Chapter 10 Geomorphology for the Third Millennium 269
David L. Higgitt and E. Mark Lee
Geographical Index 289
Subject Index 293
