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Offers a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. This book includes human-induced disasters, such as desertification in Patagonia and soil erosion in Brazil.

Focuses on the environmental changes, from climate changes to surface ares changes due to human activities. This book analyzes topics such as geological evolution of major peatlands basins; peatlands as self sustaining ecosystems; chemical environment of peatlands: water and peat chemistry; and more.

Kenya is a thriving country in East Africa: its economy is largely based on the natural environment that frames the tourism sector, mainly through safaris and holidays on the coast. This book offers a holistic view on Kenya's natural environment and resources.

Contains research on slope and river processes and places an emphasis on rivers and catchments with a Mediterranean climate. This book features papers which cover topics describing research and applied studies in Spain, Israel, the USA, Canada, the UK and New Zealand. It examines natural and anthropogenic processes operating in drainage basins.

Geomorphological Fieldwork addresses a topic that always remains popular within the geosciences and environmental science. More specifically, the volume conveys a growing legacy of field-based learning for young geomorphologists that can be used as a student book for field-based university courses and postgraduate research requiring fieldwork or field schools. The editors have much experience of field-based learning within geomorphology and extend this to physical geography. The topics covered are relevant to basic geomorphology as well as applied approaches in environmental and cultural geomorphology. The book integrates a physical-human approach to geography, but focuses on physical geography and geomorphology from an integrated field-based geoscience perspective.

Presents a synthesis of the evolution of the Alpine fold belt. This book provides an integrated overview of the evolution of the Alps from rift to passive margin to the present fold belt over a time span of 300my. It includes 175 figures, structural maps and cross sections.

Suitable for academics and practitioners who use, or wish to utilise, geomorphological mapping within their work, this title brings together material on digital mapping (GIS and remote sensing), cartography and data sources with a focus on modern technologies (including GIS, remote sensing and digital terrain analysis).

Landscape Evolution of Continental-Scale River Systems: A Case Study of North America's Pre-Pleistocene Bell River Basin provides a detailed case study and complete analysis of this continental-scale North American paleo-river system. The book uses detrital zircon provenance data to link incision of the Grand Canyon to deposition of its erosional products in a giant drowned delta in the Labrador Sea, in the context of sedimentary source-to-sink processes and Plio-Pleistocene continental drainage changes. The case study describes the tectonic changes in this continental-scale paleo-river system, with global implications, and contrasts this system to other continental-scale river systems around the world. This book is a valuable reference for postgraduate students, academics and researchers in the fields of geology, fluvial geomorphology and other geosciences. Readers will be able to use this detailed case study to better understand the implications for how active tectonics of headwaters regions influence delta deposition in continental-scale river systems around the world.