A survey of the nature and history of the landscapes of the world's great warm deserts, that illustrates how their distinctive features have developed in response to major climatic and tectonic changes over millions of years. The treatment is a regional one, and each of the world's major warm deserts has its own chapter. Written by a leading expert in the field.

Great Warm Deserts of the World: Landscapes and Evolution (Geomorphological Landscapes of the World)

Science & Math

Goudie, Andrew S.

Earth Sciences

Oxford University Press

GOUDIE, A.: THE SEARCH FOR TIMBUKTU. A VIEW OF DESERTS. AN INAUGURAL LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD ON 25 OCTOBER1985 . OXFORD, 1986, 28 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

The Search for Timbuktu: A View of Deserts (Inaugural Lectures (Oxford))

The hazards posed to engineering structures by salt weathering are increasing because of such diverse factors as the spread of irrigation and high levels of atmospheric pollution. Salt weathering is also a potent cause of rock decay and geomorphological change in polar, coastal and desert environments. The book discusses the reasons why the hazards are increasing and presents striking case studies from many parts of the world. It also discusses the nature and sources of different salts, the mechanisms that cause the deterioration of building materials and natural rock outcrops, the geomorphological processes of salt attack and their impact on landform development, and the strategies and techniques that are available to combat salt attack. The book is extensively illustrated and has a very comprehensive bibliography of the multi-disciplinary literature.

Salt Weathering Hazards

Viles, Heather A.

wiley

The Human Impact on the Natural Environment

This classic text explores the multitude of impacts that humans have had over time upon vegetation, animals, soils, water, landforms, and the atmosphere. It considers the ways in which climate changes and modifications in land cover may change the environment in coming decades. Thoroughly revised to cover the remarkable transformation in interest that humans are having in the environment, this book examines previously uncovered topics, such as rewilding, ecosystem services, techniques for study, novel and no analog ecosystems, and more. It also presents the latest views on big themes such as human origins, the Anthropocene, domestication, extinctions, and ecological invasions.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Wiley/Blackwell

In its first two editions this book has established itself as one of the most widely used environmental geography textbooks of the English-speaking world. The main new features of the third edition are twenty two 'windows', each of which describes either a key process (such as desertification, the carbon cycle and sea-level rise) or an illustrative case study (for example the origins of the Himalayas, the Karst formations of South China, the progress of Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, and the continuing evolution of the Mississippi Delta). The new edition includes a section of colour plates, and a completely updated guide to further reading.

Nature of the Environment

The Earth Transformed: An Introduction to Human Impacts on the Environment

The Earth Transformed answers the need for a concise, non-technical introduction to the ways in which the natural environment has been and is being affected by human activities. It is simply and engagingly written, and illustrated with maps, diagrams, figures and photographs. Among the subjects described and considered by the authors are desertification, deforestation, wetland management, biodiversity, climatic change, air pollution, the impact of cities on climate and hydrology, erosion, salinization, waste disposal, sea level rise, marine pollution, coral reef degradation and aquaculture. The book is organized around 45 case studies taken from all parts of the globe and chosen for their intrinsic interest and representative nature. Further features of the book include guides to further reading, suggestions for debate and study, and a glossary of terms. The book is aimed to meet the needs of students beginning courses on environmental science and geography.

Discovering the rates at which landscapes change and the causes of these changes is a key current focus in geoscientific, environmental, ecological and archaeological research. The mechanisms are intricate involving many components - a complex of positive and negative feedback mechanisms, and scales varying from the solar system and global tectonics to the activities of microscopic organisms. In this book Andrew Goudie draws together the findings of many disparate disciplines (and of his own research) to present a coherent and structured account of what is known and what remains to be discovered about change and the variable rate of change in the shape and environment of the earth's surface. This is not a research monograph but a research synthesis presented in terms comprehensible to workers in a wide range of disciplines.

The Changing Earth: Rates of Geomorphological Processes (Natural Environment)

The Human Impact has become the classic student text for understanding the ways in which human activity has changed and is changing the face of the earth. The fifth edition follows the familiar and successful structure of the previous editions and examines the human role in natural processes and systems. 
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 <li>The classic introductory textbook for students of the environment, now extensively updated. 
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<li>Updated throughout with new and expanded guides to further reading and an extensive bibliography.</li>
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The Human Impact On the Natural Environment

This is a multidisciplinary collection of thirty nine key articles concerned with the human impact on the natural environment.

The Human Impact Reader: Readings and Case Studies (Blackwell Readers on the Natural Environment)

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Great Warm Deserts of the World: Landscapes and Evolution (Geomorphological Landscapes of the World)

The Search for Timbuktu: A View of Deserts (Inaugural Lectures (Oxford))

Salt Weathering Hazards

The Human Impact on the Natural Environment

Nature of the Environment

The Earth Transformed: An Introduction to Human Impacts on the Environment

The Earth Transformed: An Introduction to Human Impacts on the Environment

The Changing Earth: Rates of Geomorphological Processes (Natural Environment)

The Human Impact On the Natural Environment

The Human Impact Reader: Readings and Case Studies (Blackwell Readers on the Natural Environment)