Geography in Britain after World War II Nature, Climate, and the Etchings of Time /

Contemporary anxieties about climate change have fueled a growing interest in how landscapes are formed and transformed across spans of time, from decades to millennia. While the discipline of geography has had much to say about how such environmental transformations occur, few studies have focused...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Martin, Max (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Damodaran, Vinita (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), D'Souza, Rohan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2019.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Reminiscences
  • 3. A half century of developments in desert geomorphology and the place of A.T. Grove
  • 4. From the highlands to the lowlands and back again: Reconstructing past environmental changes in south-central and southern Africa
  • 5. Quaternary dune systems in space and time
  • 6. The changing human environments of eastern Saudi Arabia
  • 7. Migrant birds and the threatened Sahel: Geographies of land use and degradation
  • 8. Mediterranean forests, woods and shrublands
  • 9. From Saharan palaeoclimates to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.