Environmental Change and Geomorphic Hazards in Forests
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Overview
Environmental and climate change is affecting forests and land use in numerous ways, including increasing the risk of geomorphic hazards. Such hazards include surface erosion, desertification and related land degradation. Yet it is often difficult to distinguish between the influences of climate change from those of changing forest land use, on geomorphic hazards. This volume reviews current knowlege on these issues.
Synopsis
Covering landslides, desertification, surface erosion, glacier and permafrost effects and other geomorphic processes, this report organized by Sidle (geography, National U. of Singapore) examines the impact of global climatic change on forests. The emphasis is on geomorphic processes that either affect large areas of forest or may have deleterious effects on human health or property. Distributed by Oxford U. Press. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Editorials
From the Publisher
"This is a very useful volume which includes some material on climatic change impacts that have so far received rather sparse attention from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.""This book is highly recommendable for anyone interested in climate-change related issues."