Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-521-29100-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 468 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 898 g

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 2009 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Embleton-Hamann, Christine

Slaymaker, Olav

Spencer, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Physische Geographie und Topographie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geomorphologie, Erosion, Glaziologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Landscape, and landscape scale processes as the unfilled niche in the global environmental change debate: an introduction O. Slaymaker, T. Spencer and S. Dadson
2. Mountains O. Slaymaker and C. Embleton-Hamann
3. Lakes and lake catchments K. Kashiwaya, O. Slaymaker and M. Church
4. Rivers M. Church, T. P. Burt, V. J. Galay and G. M. Kondolf
5. Estuaries, coastal marshes, tidal flats and coastal dunes D. J. Reed, R. Davidson-Arnott and G. M. E. Perillo
6. Beaches, cliffs and deltas M. J. F. Stive, P. J. Cowell and R. J. Nicholls
7. Coral reefs P. Kench, C. Perry and T. Spencer
8. Tropical rainforests R. P. D. Walsh and W. H. Blake
9. Tropical savannas M. E. Meadows and D. S. G. Thomas
10. Deserts N. Lancaster
11. Mediterranean M. Sala
12. Temperate forests and rangelands R. C. Sidle and T. P. Burt
13. Tundra and permafrost dominated taiga M.-F. André and O. Anisimov
14. Ice sheets and ice caps D. Sugden
15. Landscape, landscape scale processes and global environmental change: synthesis and new agendas for the twenty-first century T. Spencer, O. Slaymaker and C. Embleton-Hamann
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Embleton-Hamann, Christine
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.

Slaymaker, Olav
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.

Spencer, Thomas
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.