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This work is designed to improve exam performance by providing an extensive selection of case studies and the use of an enquiry-based approach. The series provides a range of ideal supplementary material for use alongside Key Geography, or other core textbooks. Teachers can be sure they are meeting all the current requirements of the National Curriculum and all major exam boards as the books take the requisite "Places and Cases" approach. The titles are both cost-effective and flexible, with a Teacher Resource Pack to support each Pupil Book. Pupils will gain an all-round comprehension of GCSE Geography through an integrated approach to the human, physical and environmental aspects of the subject. ... Read more

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"Certificate Physical and Human Geography" brings together all the main aspects of physical geography, world climatic and vegetational regions and human geography so that the relationships between them can be easily appreciated. Local examples have been used as often as possible to give students a more thorough understanding of the principles involved. Maps, diagrams, graphs and photographs assist students in their interpretation of geographical facts. Questions and exercises are included to enable students to test their own understanding of the subject. ... Read more

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An updated and expanded second edition of this popular and well established text, designed for the A level specifications.This title covers: 1. Landform Systems 2. River channel processes 3. Fluvial landforms 4. Coastal processes 5. Coastal landforms 6. Managing Britain's coasts 7. Glacial processes and landforms 8. Periglacial processes and landforms 9. Arid and semi-arid environments ... Read more

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Geography Readers contain case studies focusing on the relationship between man and the environment.Geography Readers complement the core material presented in Geography - An Integrated Approach. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 6; Original Publisher: A. Fullarton and co.; Publication date: 1832; Subjects: Geography; Australia; Islands of the Pacific; Historical geography; History / Africa / General; History / Australia ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 2; Original Publisher: A. Fullarton and co.; Publication date: 1836; Subjects: Geography; Historical geography; History / Africa / General; History / Oceania; Nature / General; Political Science / History ... Read more

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This comprehensive treatment of natural environmental systems provides the student of physical geography or environmental science with an introductory text. Based on the author's combined teaching and research experience, it is an integrated and unified account of systems on all scales from planetary to molecular. Using energy flow and mass transfer as unifying themes, the discussion is set in a thermodynamic perspective. The concepts and terminology of the systems approach which now pervades thinking and teaching in the geographical and environmental sciences are dealt with in full, although unnecessary jargon is kept to a minimum. The approach is based on a nested hierarchy of systems in which man-environment interactions are dealt with in turn but with due respect for the functional connections within them, between them, and between man and the environment as a whole. Given that such an approach must be firmly based on sound scientific principles, essential scientific models, concepts and terms are explained, largely in boxed sections which are separated from the text in order to facilitate the use of the book by students with a variety of academic background.For the second edition, all chapters have been revised. In Part 2, there is a new chapter on the hydrosphere dealing with the effect of the oceans on the energetics and biochemistry of the planet. The biosphere and ecosphere chapters have been condensed into one, with more emphasis on the nature of human interference in biogeochemical cycles. There is a new chapter on Aeolian systems (desertification and the environmental problems of arid and semi-arid lands) and another coastal systems. There is more on landscape ecology and climatic change, including the effect of ozone holes. ... Read more

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Case study of Himachal Pradesh, India. ... Read more

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Geography Readers contain case studies focusing on the relationship between man and the environment.Geography Readers complement the core material presented in Geography - An Integrated Approach. ... Read more

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This volume presents a set of coherent, cross-referenced perspectives on incorporating the spatial representation andanalytical power of GIS with agent-based modelling of evolutionary and non-linear processes and phenomena. Many recent advances in software algorithms for incorporating geographic data in modeling social and ecological behaviors, and successes in applying such algorithms, had not been adequately reported in the literature. This book seeks to serve as the standard guide to this broad area. ... Read more

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The Arctic and its surrounding marginal seas are considered some of the most sensitive elements of the global environment, which may respond rapidly to climate change. However, due to various reasons, our knowledge of the processes which drive the Arctic system today and in the past is still relatively sparse. Based on a multidisciplinary approach, German and Russian scientists describe in this book the natural paleorecords and modern data which were collected over the past 6 years. These marine and terrestrial datasets provide important new insights into the causes, impacts, and feedback mechanisms of this extreme Arctic environment. ... Read more

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Describes the use and misuse of the environment and where we seem to be headed as a species on the planet. Emphasizes the geographic aspects of problems, such as air pollution, locational factors, scales considerations, distributions and spatial associations. Provides an overview of the modern environmental dilemma and the factors which need to be examined in order to gain an understanding of the problem. Features a review of our planet's open lands and the effort to preserve and manage them. ... Read more

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GEO
The book wasn't in perfect condition, but saved me a good pit of money for a same condition used book in my school bookstore. It was a good deal for me.

It's for school... what else can I say
Long winded but informative, I feel like this text must tell you everything you could possibly want to kow about environmental geography up to it's publishing... so obviously it's not totally up to date.
It tells about as much as a documentary could... so maybe teachers should show movies since, like i said, this boook is dull dull dull.

uses global environmental problems to drive the narrative
Maybe it is fitting that the book starts off by confronting a possible global environmental crisis of the 21st century. The limits to growth of the human population are studied. This leads immediately to the idea of a maximum carrying capacity of the globe.

The authors use this to segue into the rest of the book. Discussing in part the notion of sustainable land use, and by trying to properly account, in a bookkeeping sense, for the pollution costs of industry and of individual lifestyles. We see that more efficient use of raw materials is necessary, along with expanded recycling.

Later on, the book goes into important topics like human population trends and temporal and spatial variations in how people are scattered throughout the world. Energy generation is another key idea. Fossil fuels are the most important, but alternatives like nuclear and solar are mooted.

If you compare this text to others on geography written in the 90s, what you'll find is that there is now a sharper focus on global environmental problems. Traditional texts in geography tend to take a more didactic approach. The appeal of the new book is that it can better grab the student's attention by its relevance. ... Read more

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This book provides GI Science and physical geography practitioners with an awareness of the potential of topological data structures within such areas as hydrology and geomorphology. Written for the non-computer scientist and divided into two parts, it looks at the techniques of using topological data structures, and then concentrates on the range of applications .

•  Each part is prefaced by an overview of the techniques and application
•  Algorithms are presented with practical examples of their usage
•  A website, maintained and updated by the editors, will accompany the book
•  Contributing authors are internationally-renowned experts in their field

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surface network and Reeb graph
Geography used to be a rather sleepy discipline. But the advent of ever cheaper computing power has given rise to Geographic Information Science. Within this, a basic issue has arisen about how best to represent geographic surfaces in a computer memory. What Rana shows in the amassed chapters (contributed by different authors) is how to possibly use various topological descriptions.

Many of the chapters deal with a surface network. Here the original geographic surface is assumed to be twice differentiable and that resultant function is assumed to be continuous; ie. C^2. Theorems from real analysis are used to define critical points (where the first derivative is 0), and where the Hessian (second derivative) is assumed to be non-singular at those points. (Cf. Marsden's Elementary Classical Analysis for a more detailed exposition on this point).

From this arises the mountaineer's equation, or the Euler-Poincare equation, #max + #min - #saddle = 2. Very pretty.

Those readers already versed in graph theory will see a familiar relationship. The book in several places then takes the logical next step by forming a topological graph, where a maximum, minimum or saddle point in the original graph becomes a node. While a ridge between a maximum and a saddle, or a channel between a saddle and a minimum defines a edge between two nodes.

Another key idea in the book is the Reeb graph. Both this and the surface network are elegant formulations that help capture a number of the essential features of the original metric map.

The book takes you beyond Marsden's general approach to scalar functions of several variables, by showing applications to real world (literally!) data.
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