The Physical Geography Of The Mediterranean

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This volume explores the climates, landscapes, ecosystems and hazards that comprise the Mediterranean world. It traces the development of the Mediterranean landscape over very long timescales and examines modern processes and key environmental issues in a wide range of settings. The Mediterranean is the only region on Earth where three continents meet and this interaction has produced a very distinctive Physical Geography. This book examines the landscapes and processes at the margins of these continents and the distinctive marine environment between them. Catastrophic earthquakes, explosive volcanic eruptions and devastating storms and floods are intimately bound up within the history and mythology of the Mediterranean world. This is a key region for the study of natural hazards because it offers unrivalled access to long records of hazard occurrence and impact through documentary, archaeological and geological archives. The Mediterranean is also a biodiversity hotspot; it has been a meeting place for plants, animals and humans from three continents throughout much of its history. The Quaternary records of these interactions are more varied and better preserved than in any other part of the world. These records have provided important new insights into the tempo of climate, landscape and ecosystem change in the Mediterranean region and beyond. The region is unique because of the very early and widespread impact of humans in landscape and ecosystem change - and the richness of the archaeological and geological archives that chronicle this impact. This book examines this history and these interactions and places current environmental issues in long term context. Contributors : Ramadan Husain Abu-Zied Harriet Allen Jacques Blondel Maria-Carmen Llasat James Casford Marc Castellnou Andrew Goudie Andrew Harding Angela Hayes Tom Holt Babette Hoogakker Philip Hughes Jos Lelieveld John Lewin Francisco Lloret Francisco Lopez-Bermudez Mark Macklin Jean Margat Anne Mather Frédéric Médail Christophe Morhange Clive Oppenheimer Jean Palutikof Gerassimos Papadopoulos Josep Piñol David Pyle Jane Reed Neil Roberts Eelco Rohling Iain Stewart Stathis Stiros John Thornes Chronis Tzedakis John Wainwright

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Genre : Science
Author : Jamie Woodward
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release : 2009-05-07
File : 700 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780191608414


Winter And Spring On The Shores Of The Mediterranean

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Author : James Henry Bennet
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Release : 1875
File : 764 Pages
ISBN-13 : ONB:+Z25263890X


Physical Geography Of The Mediterranean

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Author : Jamie Woodward
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Release : 2009
File : Pages
ISBN-13 : OCLC:1056039666


Hand Book Of Physical Geography

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Genre : Physical geography
Author : Keith Johnston
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Release : 1870
File : 270 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433090739883


Hand Book Of Physical Geography

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Author : Alexander Keith Johnston
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Release : 1870
File : 238 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:590544629


The Physical Geography Of South America

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The Physical Geography of South America, the eighth volume in the Oxford Regional Environments series, presents an enduring statement on the physical and biogeographic conditions of this remarkable continent and their relationships to human activity. It fills a void in recent environmental literature by assembling a team of specialists from within and beyond South America in order to provide an integrated, cross-disciplinary body of knowledge about this mostly tropical continent, together with its high mountains and temperate southern cone. The authors systematically cover the main components of the South American environment - tectonism, climate, glaciation, natural landscape changes, rivers, vegetation, animals, and soils. The book then presents more specific treatments of regions with special attributes from the tropical forests of the Amazon basin to the Atacama Desert and Patagonian steppe, and from the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific coasts to the high Andes. Additionally, the continents environments are given a human face by evaluating the roles played by people over time, from pre-European and European colonial impacts to the effects of modern agriculture and urbanization, and from interactions with El Niño events to prognoses for the future environments of the continent.

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Genre : Science
Author : Thomas T. Veblen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2015-12-01
File : 382 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780198031840


The Physical Geography Of The Sea And Its Meteorology

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Genre : Marine meteorology
Author : Matthew Fontaine Maury
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Release : 1869
File : 548 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:590666778


Report Of The Meeting Of The British Association For The Advancement Of Science

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Genre : Science
Author : British Association for the Advancement of Science
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Release : 1873
File : 926 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:31951D00021080E


Report Of The British Association For The Advancement Of Science

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Release : 1873
File : 904 Pages
ISBN-13 : ONB:+Z181799901


Physical Geography

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Genre : Geography
Author : Arnold Guyot
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Release : 1885
File : 136 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044097024301