Geomorphological Processes and Landscape Change: Britain in the Last 1000 Years (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Higgitt; Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631222731 ISBN 13: 9780631222736

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

The expert contributors to this cutting edge volume provide an overview of geomorphological process activity and landscape change in Britain over the past 1000 years. The range of the book is unusually broad, encompassing hillslope, valley floor and floodplain, fluvial, estuarine and coastal processes. * Provides an overview of geomorphological process activity and landscape change in Britain over the past 1000 years. * The range of the book is unusually broad, encompassing hillslope, valley floor and floodplain, fluvial, estuarine and coastal processes. * Considers the relevance of technological and conceptual approaches to understanding landscape dynamics. * Examines key process environments highlighting significant trends and the influence of human activity, and incorporating examples and modelling. * Encourages geographers to look forward to the challenges that geomorphology faces in the new millennium. Find out more information about the RGS--IBG journals by following the links below: AREA: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0004--0894 The Geographical Journal: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0016--7398 Transactions of the Insititute of British Geographers: http://www. blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0020--2754

Review:

"This significant and timely volume provides a contemporary body of information on the function of geomorphological processes in landscape and environmental management in human history." (Choice)

"I enjoyed this particular journey through time, which contains some thought-provoking (though invariably qualitative) observations on the making of the British landscape." (Basil Gomez, Annals of the Association of American Geographers)

From the Back Cover:

The expert contributors to this cutting edge volume provide an overview of geomorphological process activity and landscape change in Britain over the past 1000 years. The range of the book is unusually broad, encompassing hillslope, valley floor and floodplain, fluvial, estuarine and coastal processes. The relevance of technological and conceptual approaches to understanding landscape dynamics is also considered.

David Higgitt's introduction looks at the nature of environmental change during the last millennium and assesses the significance of individual events. The body of the book is formed by an examination of key process environments highlighting significant trends and the influence of human activity, and incorporating examples and modelling.

The editors' closing chapter then summarises the significance of human impact on the environment, the nature of the evidence for geomorphological change and its implication for environmental management and engineering design.

The book will encourage geographers to look forward to the challenges that geomorphology faces in the new millennium.