Author: Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Author: Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Coasts
Author: C. D. WoodroffePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521011839
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Coasts are some of the most rapidly changing places on earth. Understanding the natural adjustments that occur between coastal landforms and the processes that influence them is essential for the better management of coastal resources. Coasts provides a necessary background in geomorphology for those studying coastal systems. It describes the landforms that occur on the coast, their responses to the processes that shape them, and the pattern of evolution that can be determined for different types of coast over thousands of years. Numerous examples from around the world are used to illustrate the variety of environments. Particular attention is paid to coastal morphodynamics, the co-adjustment of process and form, on rocky, reef, sandy, deltaic-estuarine and muddy coasts. This valuable text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students is well illustrated and contains an extensive reference section. It will also be of great interest to environmental scientists, geologists, coastal managers and planners.
Coastal Chalk Cliff Instability
Author: Rory N. MortimorePublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862391505
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Collected from the International Conference on Coastal Rock Slope Instability: Geohazard and Risk Analysis in May 2001, these papers describe research relating to the growing hazard to communities from chalk cliff retreat on the southeast coast of England and the northwest coast of France. General topics of the papers include primary geological c
Sediment Fluxes in Coastal Areas
Author: Mohamed MaananPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401792607
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book presents a detailed analysis and synthesis of the processes affecting sediments fluxes from watershed to worldwide coastal systems. The volume provides a comprehensive overview and constitutes a systematic description of the response of coastal systems to global and local changes, like climate change, sea level, land use and land cover change. The case studies cover a sequence of coastal environments such as lagoons, bays, estuaries, deltas and beaches. Sediment Fluxes in Coastal Areas is designed for researchers, professionals and for course-use in hydrology, oceanography, geography, geology, geomorphology and environmental science.
Le Littoral de la Seine Maritime
Author: C. Gay (ingénieur)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages :
Book Description
Handbook of Coastal Processes and Erosion
Author: Paul D. KomarPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351089803
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The objective of this book is to focus on the physical processes that cause coastal erosion.Many scientists and engineers have focused their research on the entire range of physical processes from the waves and the currents in the nearshore to the response of the beach, via sand transport, resulting in a changing coastal morphology. Of these many processes, this book focuses only on those which directly relate the generation of coastal erosion. Some chapters deal exclusively with the physical processes, while others provide examples of erosion problems although most of the chapter topics have clear implications for issues of coastal-zone management, these issues are not belaboured as several other books are already available in this area. The objective is to provide state-of-the-art presentation of the science of coastal erosion processes.
Forgotten Blitzes
Author: Claudia BaldoliPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144118581X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Coastal Zone
Author: Kenneth RuddlePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9783718604821
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The Chalk Aquifers of Northern Europe
Author: R.P. FarrellPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 1786205513
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
The Cretaceous Chalk aquifers of Northern Europe underlie and support many sensitive ecosystems whilst at the same time being an important source of drinking water. Understanding, managing and protecting this valuable asset has always been a challenge and this volume brings together 25 papers representing current knowledge of the Chalk across a variety of thematic sections. The contributions look at aquifer properties, geology and karst; groundwater monitoring in the Chalk; groundwater management; groundwater-fed wetlands; engineering in the Chalk; heat and solute transport; diffuse pollution; and point source pollution. Geographically, the book includes studies undertaken in England, France, Belgium and Denmark. As well as academic papers, many of the chapters are practitioner focused and the editors hope that anyone working in Chalk groundwaters in Northern Europe, whether in academic, consultancy, water company or regulatory roles, will find this book an invaluable resource.
The Channel
Author: Renaud MorieuxPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316489736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Rather than a natural frontier between natural enemies, this book approaches the English Channel as a shared space, which mediated the multiple relations between France and England in the long eighteenth century, in both a metaphorical and a material sense. Instead of arguing that Britain's insularity kept it spatially and intellectually segregated from the Continent, Renaud Morieux focuses on the Channel as a zone of contact. The 'narrow sea' was a shifting frontier between states and a space of exchange between populations. This richly textured history shows how the maritime border was imagined by cartographers and legal theorists, delimited by state administrators and transgressed by migrants. It approaches French and English fishermen, smugglers and merchants as transnational actors, whose everyday practices were entangled. The variation of scales of analysis enriches theoretical and empirical understandings of Anglo-French relations, and reassesses the question of Britain's deep historical connections with Europe.
