Screen LibraryGeomorphology and global environmental change
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 434 p.: ill. ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780521878128 (hbk.) 0521878128 (hbk.) |
| Index Number: | P931 |
| CLC: | P931 |
| Call Number: | P931/G345-3 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Landscape and landscape-scale processes as the unfilled niche in the global environmental change debate: an introduction / Olav Slaymaker, Thomas Spencer and Simon Dadson -- Mountains / Olav Slaymaker and Christine Embleton-Hamann -- Lakes and lake catchments / Kenji Kashiwaya, Olav Slaymaker and Michael Church -- Rivers / Michael Church ... [et al.]. 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. |