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" Geomorphology and global environmental change / "
edited by Olav Slaymaker, Thomas Spencer and Christine Embleton-Hamann.
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1010830
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b765200
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Geomorphology and global environmental change /\ edited by Olav Slaymaker, Thomas Spencer and Christine Embleton-Hamann.
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press,, 2009.
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xvi, 434 pages :: illustrations ;; 26 cm
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0521291003
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: 0521878128
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: 9780521291002
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: 9780521878128
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Deserts / Nicholas Lancaster. -- Introduction -- Drivers of change and variability in desert geomorphic systems -- Fluvial geomorphic systems in deserts -- Aeolian systems -- Discussion -- Mediterranean landscapes / Maria Sala. -- Introduction -- Geology, topography and soils -- Climate, hydrology, vegetation and geomorphological processes -- Long-term environmental change in Mediterranean landscapes -- Traditional human impacts in Mediterranean landscapes and nineteenth- and twentieth century change -- Contemporary and expected near-future land use changes -- Global environmental change in Mediterranean environments and its interaction with land use change -- Concluding remarks -- Temperate forests and rangelands / Rory C. Sidle and Tim P. Burt. -- Introduction -- Global distribution of mid-latitude temperate forests and rangelands -- Potential climate change scenarios and geomorphic consequences -- Types, trajectories and vulnerabilities associated with anticipated mass wasting responses to climate change -- Anthropogenic effects on geomorphic processes -- Techniques for assessing effects of anthropogenic and climate-induced mass wasting -- Summary and conclusions -- Tundra and permafrost-dominated taiga / Marie-Françoise André and Oleg Anisimov. -- Permafrost regions: a global change 'hotspot' -- Permafrost indicators: current trends and projections -- Permafrost thaw as a driving force of landscape change in tundra/taiga areas -- Impact of landscape change on greenhouse gas release -- Socioeconomic impact and hazard implications of themokarst activity -- Vulnerability of arctic coastal regions exposed to accelerated erosion -- Discriminating the climate, sea level and land use components of global change -- Lessons from the past -- Geomorphological services and recommendations for future management of permafrost regions -- Ice sheets and ice caps / David Sugden. -- Introduction -- Distributions of ice sheets and ice caps -- Ice sheets and ice cap landscapes -- -Ice sheets and ice caps: mass balance -- Ice flow and ice temperature -- External controls and feedbacks -- Landscapes of glacial erosion and deposition -- How will ice sheets and ice caps respond to global warming? -- Conclusion and summary -- Landscape, landscape-scale processes and global environmental change: synthesis and new agendas for the twenty-first century / Thomas Spencer, Olav Slaymaker and Christine Embleton-Hamann. -- Introduction: beyond the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report -- Geomorphological processes and global environmental change -- Landscapes and global environmental change -- Conclusions: new geomorphological agendas for the twenty-first century.
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Estuaries, coastal marshes, tidal flats and coastal dunes / Denise J. Reed, Robin Davidson-Arnott and Gerardo M.E. Perillo. -- Introduction -- Estuaries -- Coastal marshes and tidal flats -- Coastal sand dunes systems -- Managing coastal geomorphic systems for the twenty-first century -- Beaches, cliffs and deltas / Marcel J.F. Stive, Peter J. Cowell and Robert J. Nicholls. -- Introduction -- Coastal classifications -- The coastal-tract cascade -- Applications of the quantitative coastal tract -- Risk-based prediction and adaptation -- Conclusions -- Coral reefs / Paul Kench, Chris Perry, and Thomas Spencer. -- Introduction -- Carbonate production in coral reef environments: the reef carbonate factory -- Coral reef landforms: reef and reef flat geomorphology -- Reef sedimentary landforms -- Anthropogenic effects on sedimentary landforms -- Synthesis -- Tropical rainforests / Rory P.D. Walsh and Will H. Blake. -- The tropical rainforest ecological and morphoclimatic zone -- Geomorphological characteristics of the rainforest zone: a synthesis -- Recent climate change in the rainforest zone -- Approaches and methods for predicting geomorphological change: physical models versus conceptual/empirical approaches -- Potential ecological, hydrological and geomorphological response to predicted future climate change in rainforest areas -- Research gaps and priorities for improvement to geomorphological predictions in the humid tropics -- Summary and conclusions -- Tropical savannas / Michael E. Meadows and David S.G. Thomas. -- Introduction -- Key landforms and processes -- Landscape sensitivity, thresholds and 'hotspots' -- A case study in geomorphic impacts of climate change: the Kalahari of southern Africa -- Concluding remarks.
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Landscape and landscape-scale processes as the unfilled niche in the global environmental change debate: an introduction / Olav Slaymaker, Thomas Spencer and Simon Dadson. -- The content -- Climatic geomorphology -- Process morphology -- Identification of disturbance regimes -- Landscape change -- Systemic drivers of global environmental change (I): hydroclimate and runoff -- Systemic drivers of global environmental change (II): sea level -- Cumulative drivers of global environmental change (I): topographic relief -- Cumulative drivers of global environmental change (II): human activity -- Broader issues for geomorphology in the global environmental change debate -- Landscape change models in geomorphology -- Organisation of the book -- Mountains / Olav Slaymaker and Christine Embleton-Hamann. -- Introduction -- Direct driver I: relief -- Direct driver (II): hydroclimate and runoff -- Direct driver (III): human activity, population and land use -- Twenty-first-century mountain landscapes under the influence of hydroclimate change -- Twenty-first-century mountain landscapes under the influence of land use and land cover change -- Vulnerability of mountain landscapes and relation to adaptive capacity -- Lakes and lake catchments / Kenji Kashiwaya, Olav Slaymaker and Michael Church. -- Introduction -- Lakes and wetlands -- The lake catchment as geomorphic system -- Internal lake processes -- Hydroclimate changes and proxy data -- Effects of human activity -- Scenarios of future wetland and lake catchment change-- Rivers / Michael Church, Tim P. Burt, Victor J. Galay and G. Mathuias Kondolf. -- Introduction -- Land surface: runoff production -- River channels: function and management -- Fluvial sediment transport and sedimentation -- Water control: dams and diversions -- River restoration in the context of global change -- Conclusions.
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Global climate change will have a profound effect on our landscape, but there are other important catalysts of landscape change, including relief, hydroclimate and runoff, sea level change and human activity. This book provides a benchmark statement from some of the world's leading geomorphologists on the state of the environment and its likely near-future change.
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Climatic geomorphology.
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Environmental geomorphology.
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Global environmental change.
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Landscape changes.
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Climatic geomorphology.
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Environmental geomorphology.
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Geomorfologi.
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Geomorphologie
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Global environmental change.
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Klimatförändringar.
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Landscape changes.
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Landschaftsentwicklung
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Umweltveränderung
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Geomorphologie.
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Umweltveränderung.
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| Dewey Classification
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551.41
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GB447.G46 2009
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AR 14900rvk
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| Added Entry
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Embleton-Hamann, Christine.
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Slaymaker, Olav,1939-
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Spencer, T., (Tom)
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