Human activities have had a huge impact on the environment and
landscape, through industrialisation and land-use change, leading to
climate change, deforestation, desertification, land degradation, and
air and water pollution. These impacts are strongly linked to the
occurrence of geomorphological hazards, such as floods, landslides,
snow avalanches, soil erosion, and others. Geomorphological work
includes not only the understanding but the mapping and modelling of
Earth's surface processes, many of which directly affect human
societies. In addition, geomorphologists are becoming increasingly
involved with the dimensions of societal problem solving, through
vulnerability analysis, hazard and risk assessment and management. The
work of geomorphologists is therefore of prime importance for disaster
prevention. An international team of geomorphologists have contributed
their expertise to this volume, making this a scientifically rigorous
work for a wide audience of geomorphologists and other Earth
scientists, including those involved in environmental science, hazard
and risk assessment, management and policy.
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ISBN
9781316171509
Publisert
2014
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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