The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth and its people. Examining both physical and human geography and charting human activities within their habitat up to the present day, this Companion also asks what lies in the future: * A differentiated world * A world transformed by the growth of a global economy * The global scale of habitat modification * A world of questions * Changing worlds, changing geographies * Geographical futures. The forty-five self...
The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth ...
Richard John Huggett R. J. Huggett Huggett Richard
Animals, plants, and soils interact with one another, with the terrestrial spheres, and with the rest of the Cosmos. On land, this interaction creates landscape systems or geoecosystems. Geoecology investigates the structure and function of geoecosystems, their components and their environment. The author develops a simple dynamic systems model, the brash equation, to form the conceptual framework for the book suggesting an ecological and evolutionary approach. Exploring internal of ecological interactions between geoecosystems and their near-surface environments - the atmosphere,...
Animals, plants, and soils interact with one another, with the terrestrial spheres, and with the rest of the Cosmos. On land, this interaction creates...
This volume presents an introductory exploration of past, present and future change in the environment. The author introduces the interdependent parts of the natural environment - ecological, geological and cosmic - and the dynamic nature of the environmental system. The book examines human-environment interaction, and biological and physical evidence and causes of environmental change over a range of timescales. Exploring rates and directions of change, Huggett postulates an unending adaption of the ecosphere and its parts to ever-changing circumstances, including those triggered by human...
This volume presents an introductory exploration of past, present and future change in the environment. The author introduces the interdependent parts...
The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth and its people. Examining both physical and human geography and charting human activities within their habitat up to the present day, this Companion also asks what lies in the future: * A differentiated world * A world transformed by the growth of a global economy * The global scale of habitat modification * A world of questions * Changing worlds, changing geographies * Geographical futures. The forty-five self...
The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth ...
Fundamentals of Biogeography presents an accessible, engaging and comprehensive introduction to biogeography, explaining the ecology, geography, history and conservation of animals and plants.
Fundamentals of Biogeography presents an accessible, engaging and comprehensive introduction to biogeography, explaining the ecology, geography, histo...
Ferocious debates have always characterized the interpretation of Earth history. After a generally quieter period during the first half of the twentieth century, controversies re-ignited in many branches of the Earth and life sciences in the 1960s. Plate and plume tectonics, cosmic catastrophism, giant tsunamis, the origin of ice ages, punctuated equilibrium, the Gaia hypothesis, and many more have all led to intense arguments. The Natural History of the Earth probes selected discussions within biology, climatology, geology, and geomorphology and...
Ferocious debates have always characterized the interpretation of Earth history. After a generally quieter period during the first half of the t...
This revised edition takes the theme of place as the unifying principle for a full account of the discipline at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The work comprises 64 substantial essays addressing human and physical geography, and exploring their inter-relations. The encyclopedia does full justice to the enormous growth of social and cultural geography in recent years. Leading international academics from ten countries and four continents have contributed, ensuring that differing traditions in geography around the world are represented. In addition to references, the essays...
This revised edition takes the theme of place as the unifying principle for a full account of the discipline at the beginning of the twenty-first c...
Using a broad selection of classic and current sources, The Natural History of the Earth probes selected discussions within biology, climatology, geology, and geomorphology and explores a selection of debates about Earth and life history, considering their origins and their present state-of-play. After outlining the arguments, placing them in an historical context and indicating their significance, the book goes on to deal with specific debates. In the geosphere section, topics covered include geological processes, the bombardment hypothesis, frigid climates and cataclysmic floods, and in the...
Using a broad selection of classic and current sources, The Natural History of the Earth probes selected discussions within biology, climatology, geol...
