Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change
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Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- 1 Landscape and landscape-scale processes as the unfilled niche in the global environmental change debate: an introduction
- 2 Mountains
- 3 Lakes and lake catchments
- 4 Rivers
- 5 Estuaries, coastal marshes, tidal flats and coastal dunes
- 6 Beaches, cliffs and deltas
- 7 Coral reefs
- 8 Tropical rainforests
- 9 Tropical savannas
- 10 Deserts
- 11 Mediterranean landscapes
- 12 Temperate forests and rangelands⤀
- 13 Tundra and permafrost-dominated taiga
- 14 Ice sheets and ice caps
- 15 Landscape, landscape-scale processes and global environmental change: synthesis and new agendas for the twenty-rst century
- Index