Applied Geography: Principles and PracticeMichael Pacione Routledge, 2002 M03 11 - 664 pages Applied Geography offers an invaluable introduction to useful research in physical, environmental and human geography and provides a new focus and reference point for investigating and understanding problem-orientated research. Forty-nine leading experts in the field introduce and explore research which crosses the traditional boundary between physical and human geography. A wide range of key issues and contemporary debates are within the books main sections, which cover: natural and environmental hazards environmental change and management challenges of the human environment techniques of spatial analysis Applied geography is the application of geographic knowledge and skills to identify the nature and causes of social, economic and environmental problems and inform policies which lead to their resolution. |
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... Increased coastal flood hazard in Venice, Italy 7.2House raisingas a flood alleviation strategy 7.3The Czech, Polish and Germanfloods in1997 8.1 Coastal classification andcoastal erosion 9.1 Air pollution by smoke and sulphur dioxide ...
... Increased coastal flood hazard in Venice, Italy 7.2House raisingas a flood alleviation strategy 7.3The Czech, Polish and Germanfloods in1997 8.1 Coastal classification andcoastal erosion 9.1 Air pollution by smoke and sulphur dioxide ...
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... increased salinity of estuaries, a higherrisk of stormflooding anderosion of shorelines, and changes totidal rangesand the deposition ofsediments. Regional responsesto sea level rise through geomorphological and ecologicalsystems ...
... increased salinity of estuaries, a higherrisk of stormflooding anderosion of shorelines, and changes totidal rangesand the deposition ofsediments. Regional responsesto sea level rise through geomorphological and ecologicalsystems ...
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... increasing sophistication ofclimate models willbea valuable toolin unravelling the globalclimate system and its response to forcing throughglobal warming.This scientific advance needs tobe matchedby the better understandingof economic ...
... increasing sophistication ofclimate models willbea valuable toolin unravelling the globalclimate system and its response to forcing throughglobal warming.This scientific advance needs tobe matchedby the better understandingof economic ...
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... increased or decreased acid precipitation. Thedetermination ofcritical loadis, however, dependentoninformation aboutthe volume ofaciddeposition, the buffering capacityofsoils, bedrock,etc., vegetation type,and hydrology. For example ...
... increased or decreased acid precipitation. Thedetermination ofcritical loadis, however, dependentoninformation aboutthe volume ofaciddeposition, the buffering capacityofsoils, bedrock,etc., vegetation type,and hydrology. For example ...
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... increases in temperaturepredicted by general circulation models (GCMs)for the boreal zonecould cause increased mineralisation ofnitrogen and theoxidation oforganic compounds,including those containingsulphur. Thus, despite emission ...
... increases in temperaturepredicted by general circulation models (GCMs)for the boreal zonecould cause increased mineralisation ofnitrogen and theoxidation oforganic compounds,including those containingsulphur. Thus, despite emission ...
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