TY - BOOK ID - 18008520 TI - Physical geography and global environmental change AU - Slaymaker, Olav AU - Spencer, Tom PY - 1998 SN - 0582298296 PB - Harlow Longman DB - UniCat KW - Physical geography. KW - Geografie KW - Fysische geografie KW - Algemeen. KW - Meteorology. Climatology KW - Global environmental change. KW - Géographie physique KW - Changement global (Environnement) KW - 911.2 KW - Géographie physique KW - Physical geography KW - General ecology and biosociology KW - Environmental protection. Environmental technology KW - Géographie physique. KW - Changement global de l'environnement. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18008520 AB - he physical geography of the nineteenth century emphasised interlinkages between the physical environment and human society. During the twentieth century, the pressures toward specialisation have produced the four disciplines of biogeography, climatology, geomorphology and hydrology which have their own, independent integrity and physical geography has suffered some attrition as a unified field of geography. This book, and indeed the whole series, adopts global environmental change and its repercussions for society, as the coherent integrating theme to reinvigorate the physical geography of the twenty-first century. It looks at environmental systems and impacts, integrating opportunities and challenges in the field. Understanding Global Environmental Change (UGEC): Themes in Physical Geography. Physical Geography and Global Environmental Change is the first text to be published within this series, designed to meet the need for shorter, inexpensive and more sharply focused books suitable for use within physical geography. ER -