Research Catalog

Title

Landscape sensitivity / edited by D.S.G. Thomas and R.J. Allison.

Publication

Chichester ; New York : Wiley, ©1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Thomas, David S. G.
• Allison, R. J. (Robert J.)

Description

xii, 347 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.

Series Statement

British Geomorphological Research Group symposia series

Uniform Title

British Geomorphological Research Group symposia series

Subject

• Geomorphology
• Nature > Effect of human beings on
• geomorphology
• Geomorphologie
• Landschaftsentwicklung
• Umweltveränderung
• Kongress
• Landinrichting
• Geomorfologie
• Klimaatveranderingen
• Landgebruik

Note

• Based on a conference of the Institute of British Geographers held at the University of Sheffield in January 1991.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Credits (note)

• Based on a conference of the Institute of British Geographers held at the University of Sheffield in January 1991.

Contents

The sensitivity of landscapes / R.J. Allison and D.S.G. Thomas -- Barriers to geomorphological change / D. Brunsden -- The sensitivity of river channels in the landscape system / P.W. Downs and K.J. Gregory -- Use of caesium-137 measurements to investigate relationships between erosion rates and topography / T.A. Quine and D.E. Walling -- Landscape sensitivity and change on Dartmoor / A.J.W. Gerrard -- Landscape stability and biogeomorphic response to past and future climatic shifts in intertropical Africa / N. Roberts and P. Barker -- Geomorphical processes, environmental change and landscape sensitivity in the Kalahari region of southern Africa / P.A. Shaw and D.S.G. Thomas -- Thresholds in a sensitive landscape : the loess region of central China / E. Derbyshire [and others] -- Sensitivity of fault-generated scarps as indicators of active tectonism : some constraints from the Agean region / I.S. Stewart -- Shallow failure mechanisms during the Holocene : utilisation of a coupled slope hydrology-slope stability model / S.M. Brooks, K.S. Richards and M.G. Anderson -- Numerical experiments on the orthogonal profile with particular reference to changing environmental parameters / J. Hardisty -- Sensitivity of the British landscape to erosion / R. Evans -- The sensitivity of downland arable land to erosion by water / J. Boardman -- Catchment sensitivity to land use controls / T.P. Burt, A.L. Heathwaite and S.T. Trudgill -- Catchment controls on the recent sediment history of Slapton Ley, south-west England / A.L. Heathwaite -- The sensitivity of rivers to nitrate leaching : the effectiveness of near-stream land as a nutrient retention zone / N.E. Haycock and T.P. Burt -- Environmental responses and sensitivity to permanent cattle ranching, semi-arid western central Botswana / J.S. Perkins and D.S.G. Thomas -- Successional pattern and landscape sensitvity in the Mediterranean and Near East / M.A. Blumler -- The environmental sensitivity of blistering of limestone walls in Oxford, England : a preliminary study / H.A. Viles -- Sensitivity of South Australian environments to marina construction / N. Harvey.

ISBN

• 0471936367
• 9780471936367

LCCN

92026901

OCLC

• ocm26503438
• 26503438
• SCSB-1986820

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library