The focus of this book is on various dimensions of landslide hazard assessment including terminologies used in landslide hazard analysis, landslide inventory systems used globally and their relevance in generating complete and reliable landslide dat...Loe edasi...
Europe has a long history of managing coastal erosion through a variety of protection strategies. This book provides a comprehensive review of the entire coastline of Europe; a comparative analysis of erosion problems and solutions, considering both...Loe edasi...
This book introduces the way projects are managed, designed, and constructed, and how the engineering geologist can contribute to cost-effective and safe project achievement. Now with a new chapter on environmental issues covering hydrogeology, clim...Loe edasi...
Polar Ice and Global Warming in Cryosphere Regions is based on recent and past climate variabilities gathered through satellite data and spatial-temporal analysis to explain the role of global warming on cryosphere regions; the high-latitude Himalay...Loe edasi...
In 1951 UNESCO launched an Arid Zone Programme with the object of promoting research into arid regions from every relevant scientific point of view. This book, originally published in 1966, represents the range of research undertaken and gives a gen...Loe edasi...
The application of recently available high-resolution satellite data for mapping and change detection and a summary of advances in techniques for characterizing the mineralogy of sand is explained....Loe edasi...
This book unfolds the experiences gained in the past EGS projects, described by those who were involved in the execution of EGS projects in Europe and those involved in experimental and theoretical modelling of the crack propagation, circulation flu...Loe edasi...
First published in 1969, Water, Earth, and Man, was written to demonstrate the advantages of adopting a unified view of the earth and social sciences....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1993, Active Lavas looks at the practical aspects of monitoring uncontrolled streams of molten rock and how field data can be applied for theoretical modelling and forecasting the growth of lava flows....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1995, Monitoring Active Volcanoes is a comprehensive text which addresses the importance of volcano surveillance in the context of forecasting eruptive activity and mitigating its effects....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2022, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003276685)
This book explores fluvial processes and their consequences on river dynamics in India. It discusses the integration of the geomorphic, hydrologic, socio-economic data for integrating various policies and decisions regarding sustainable river basin...Loe edasi...
The Bhagirathi-Hooghly Basin in India is one of the most densely populated regions in the world, and is undergoing rapid urbanization. This book uses spatio-temporal analysis to understand the major anthropogenic signatures on land use and land cove...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1984, deals authoritatively with the nature and management of slope failures and sediment movement and their impact on the hazardous landscape of Los Angeles county....Loe edasi...
This volume provides both a textbook and reference work on the physical and biotic landscapes of Southern Africa, and how these environments have been, are and will be subject to change....Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1985, arises from the 14th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium. The chapters here illustrate the use of models in various areas of research in geomorphology....Loe edasi...
The tropics provide the key to understanding much biological and Earth science. This book, first published in 1985, brings together the variety of evidence about environmental changes, over a variety of timescales, and sets it against the current kn...Loe edasi...
This unique treatment of geomorphology, first published in 1986, provides a comprehensive work to enable students to see the subject as a whole. The book summarises the history of intellectual debate in geomorphology and then describes modern develo...Loe edasi...
This re-evaluation of the basic postulates of geomorphology, first published in 1982, examines the subject within its scientific context, arguing that coherence in geomorphology can be demonstrated despite the many apparent divergences, which should...Loe edasi...
