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'I still believe this book to be the best available introductory level text in the field.' - Matthew Bampton, University of Southern Maine, USA
'The best text for my first-year physical geography courses for over ten years ... The authors are to be complimented on their clear and easy style.' - Chris Young, Christchurch University College, Canterbury, UK
PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITION: ‘A very wide-ranging and attractive introduction to the discipline’ - Progress in Physical Geography
NEW 4TH EDITION
Fundamentals of the Physical Environment Peter Smithson, University of Sheffield, UK, Ken Addison, University of Oxford, UK and University of Wolverhampton, UK and Ken Atkinson, University of Leeds, UK
April 2008: 656pp Hb: 0-415-39514-3 ISBN13: 978-0-415-39514-4: US $200.00 Pb: 0-415-39516-X ISBN13: 978-0-415-39516-8: US $56.95 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY £110.00
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Key Changes for the New Edition: • now features a full colour internal design including: 437 four colour figures and 153 four colour photographs
• chapter nine on climate change has been extensively revised and strengthened
• chapter sixteen, the work of the wind and chapter fifteen on ice at the land surface have been extensively revised.
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Part 1: Fundamentals 1. The Physical Environment: Scientific Concepts and Methods 2. Energy and Earth Part 2: Atmosphere 3. Heat and Energy in the Atmosphere 4. Moisture in the Atmosphere 5. Precipitation and Evapotranspiration 6. The Atmosphere in Action 7. Weather-forming Systems 8. Micro and Local Climates 9. Climate Change Part 3: Geosphere 10. Earth's Geological Structure and Processes 11. The Global Ocean 12. Rock Formation and Deformation 13. Denudation, Weathering and Mass Wasting 14. Fluvial Systems: Catchments and Rivers 15. Cryosphere Systems: Glaciers, Ice and Permafrost 16. Aeolian Systems 17. Global Coastlines Part 4: Biosphere 18. Soils in their Environment 19. Soil Fertility and Sustainability 20. Principles of Biogeography 21. The Earth System and the Cycling of Carbon and Nutrients 22. Biodiversity in Ecosystems Part 5: Environments 23. Environmental Reconstruction: Principles and Practice 24. Polar and Alpine Environments 25. Mediterranean Environments 26. Tropical Deserts and Semi-arid Environments 27. Humid Tropical Environments 28. Current and Future Environmental Change
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• chapter one incorporates a new section on the history and study of physical geography
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Clearly written, well-structured and with a host of informative colour diagrams and photographs, this text provides students with the necessary grounding in fundamental processes whilst linking these to their impact on human society and their application to the science of the environment.
Selected Contents:
• new chapters on polar and alpine environments, environmental reconstruction and on environmental change
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Fundamentals of the Physical Environment has established itself as a well-respected core introductory book for students of physical geography and the environmental sciences. Taking a systems approach, it demonstrates how the various factors operating at the Earth’s surface can and do interact, and how landscape can be used to decipher them. The nature of the earth and its oceans, the main processes of geomorphology and key elements of ecosystems are also all explained. The final section on specific environments usefully sets in context the physical processes and human impacts.
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