Physical Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. Beyond a Stationary Hydrology: the Resilience Approach to the Adaptation of Flooding Systems to Climate Change

   UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

   By Berry Gersonius

   Nowadays, the uncertainties associated with the process of making decisions for water infrastructure investments can be significant and arise from, amongst other factors, a lack of knowledge about primary external drivers, like climate change. New and improved methods for the assessment climate...

   Published May 15th 2012 by CRC Press
2. Taiwan's Environmental Struggle

   Toward a Green Silicon Island

   By Jack Williams, Ch’ang-yi David Chang

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Taiwan experienced a highly successful economic transformation in the last 50 years that produced one of Asia’s genuine ‘miracles’ of modern development, in terms of improvement in per capita income and overall quality of material well being for its citizens. The process, though, involved rapid...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Agrometeorology in Extreme Events and Natural Disasters

   By H.P. Das

   This volume deals with a broad variety of extreme events that affect agriculture and presents effective risk management strategies. It explains events and their effects and presents techniques and strategies to cope with disasters such as drought, volcanic eruption, pests, etc. and minimize...

   Published May 9th 2012 by CRC Press
4. Climate Change and Australia

   Warming to the Global Challenge

   By Ben Saul, Steven Sherwood, Jane McAdam, Tim Stephens, James Slezak

   Climate change is one of the most hotly debated issues of this century. Politicians have risen and fallen on its wake, elections have been fought around it, and international leaders have come under unprecedented scrutiny by civil society. As Australia is battered by hotter summers, more frequent...

   Published March 11th 2012 by Federation Press
5. Geography of Climate Change

   Edited by Richard Aspinall

   Climate change is one of the inescapable themes of current times. Climate change confronts society in issues as diverse as domestic and international political debate and negotiation, discussion in the media and public opinion, land management choices and decisions, and concerns about environmental...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
6. Climate Clever

   How Governments Can Tackle Climate Change (and Still Win Elections)

   By Hugh Compston, Ian Bailey

   Why, despite two decades of climate policy, have affluent democracies made so little progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions? We know that there are ways of doing this that are both practical and affordable. It is politics that is the problem. Stringent climate policies may lead companies to...

   Published February 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Asian Perspectives on Water Policy

   Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Asit Biswas

   Asian countries are not homogenous. They are in different stages of social and economic development, with cultural conditions and institutional and legal frameworks varying from one country to another. Therefore, how water can be successfully managed differs from one country to another. The book...

   Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
8. Practical Engineering Geology

   By Steve Hencher

   Series: Applied Geotechnics

   Steve Hencher presents a broad and fresh view on the importance of engineering geology to civil engineering projects. Practical Engineering Geology provides an introduction to the way that projects are managed, designed and constructed and the ways that the engineering geologist can contribute to...

   Published January 12th 2012 by CRC Press
9. The Environmental Impact Statement After Two Generations

   Managing Environmental Power

   By Michael Greenberg

   Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

   This book is about a subject that Michael Greenberg has worked on and lived with for almost forty years. He was brought up in the south Bronx at a time when his neighborhood suffered from terrible air and noise pollution, and domestic waste went untreated into the Hudson River. For him,...

   Published January 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. Coastal Engineering

    Processes, Theory and Design Practice, 2nd Edition

    By Dominic Reeve, Andrew Chadwick, Christopher Fleming

    Historically, much harm has been done by well-meaning coastal engineering attempts, which seemed like good ideas on paper but which failed to allow for practical issues. For this reason, it is vital that theories and models are well grounded in practice. This second edition brings the models and...

    Published December 13th 2011 by CRC Press