Editors:
- Provides state-of-the-art treatment of the relationship between geomorphology and society
- Contains contributions by leading international scholars with a strong interdisciplinary focus
- Shares key developments in understanding the geomorphology of the anthropocene
Part of the book series: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences (AGES)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book deals with the relationship between geomorphology and society. This topic has had rather scant treatment in the literature except to some extent under the label “applied geomorphology”. In this text the authors aim to bring together conceptual issues and case studies of how geomorphology influences society and, indeed, how society is in turn influenced by geomorphology. In an age in which the influence of human activities on global environments has become so paramount that it is increasingly common to refer to it geologically as the “anthropocene”, the book aims to reflect on the geomorphological significance of widespread and diverse forms of human impact in a range of environmental settings.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Michael E. Meadows
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National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Jiun-Chuan Lin
About the editors
Professor Mike Meadows is Head of the Department of Environmental & Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town and Secretary-General and Treasurer of the International Geographical Union
Professor J-C Lin is the Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Geomorphology and Society
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geomorphology and Society
Editors: Michael E. Meadows, Jiun-Chuan Lin
Series Title: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56000-5
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55998-6Published: 29 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56750-9Published: 07 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-56000-5Published: 17 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2198-3542
Series E-ISSN: 2198-3550
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 277
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 83 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geomorphology, Human Geography, Environmental Geography