Humid Tropical Environments: Natural Environment
Autor A Readingen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 sep 1995
The book opens with a discussion of the problems of defining the humid tropics and of the need to link research on environmental processes in order to achieve an holistic understanding of environmental change. The authors then move to an examination of atmospheric circulation systems and associated climatic characteristics. Considerations of climate further inform detailed analyses of soil types and distribution, vegetation, landscape, and hydrological processes. The authors stress the interdependence of form and process and look closely and in detail at past and present human impacts. The issues surrounding the intensive exploitation of large zones of the humid tropics are discussed in detail, at local, regional and global scales.
Numerous case studies of contrasting environments support the argument throughout the book. The text is illustrated extensively with diagrams, maps and photographs. It is fully referenced and contains an annotated list of further reading by subject.
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ISBN-10: 0631191747
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 171 x 244 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Wiley
Seria Natural Environment
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom
Public țintă
undergraduates in geography, environmental science taking courses in tropical rainforestsNotă biografică
Andrew Millington is Professor of Geography at the University of Leicester. He has previously held appointments at the Universities of Reading and Sierra Leone, and has lectured at the University College Dublin and the University of Kent.
Russell Thompson has held lectureships in geography departments at the University of New England, Australia; Massey University, New Zealand; the University of Guelph, Canada; the University of the South Pacific, Fiji and (currently) the University of Reading.