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A3 1institute for environment and human security, united nations university, bonn, germany 2institute of geography, clisec university of hamburg, hamburg, germany 3independent scholar. Applied geomorphology emphasizes geomorphological processes that are of societal significance, including the effects of urbanization on the physical environment and hazards such as flooding, coastal erosion and sealevel rise. This book, which draws on the expertise of 21 leading international coastal scientists, represents an uptodate account of coastal environments and past, present and future impacts of global change. An emphasis on smallscale surface processes and their. The paper introduces some problems and approaches for studies of environmental changes over last millenia, centuries and decades, when human impact on environments became comparable by magnitude with action of the cosmic and telluric forces. The handbook global environmental change is intended to serve as a reliable and comprehensive resource to attend the needs of researchers, teachers, students, and professionals working in science and policy aspects relevant to environment and sustainability. Coastal environments harbour valuable ecosystems, but they are also hugely important from a societal point of view. Global environmental change addresses largescale chemical, biological, geological, and physical perturbations of the earths surface, ocean, land surface. Thompson royal holloway, university of london, uk geomorphology and land management in a changing environment highlights the practical application of geography to environmental management, through examination of the ways in which.
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