Fysisk geografi og topografi

In a context of disciplinary division between human and physical geography, the book seeks to reassert the unity of the field through an emphasis on a shared focus on the geographic configuration of things and how and why configuration is important.

Hinter jeder Kurve ein neues Abenteuer: Auf Patagonien-Tour vor traumhafter BergkulisseBereit für eine Reise ans "Ende der Welt"? Patagonien, das steht für unendliche Weiten und erhabene Landschaften, leuchtende Gletscher und majestätische Gipfel. Exklusiv für das CURVES-Magazin hat Fotograf Stephan Bogner die schönsten Panoramastraßen dieses einmaligen Landstrichs erkundet.Die gewohnt phänomenalen Luftbildaufnahmen zeigen aufregende Routen mitten ins Nirgendwo. Ob Sie gemütlich im Caravan durch die wilde Steppe gondeln oder den Nervenkitzel der Serpentinen mit atemberaubenden Ausblicken vorziehen: Das einzigartige Naturerlebnis macht Ihren Trip garantiert zur unvergesslichen Reise.- Patagonien: Bilder einer überwältigenden Landschaft, die man so noch nicht gesehen hat- Die reizvollsten Routen und einsamsten Bergstraßen: inklusive Karte zur Streckenplanung- Einzigartiges Fahrerlebnis auf endlosen Straßen: für Autotouren, Motorrad- und Campingreisen- Mit ausgesuchten Empfehlungen: die besten Hotels und Sehenswürdigkeiten Patagoniens - CURVES - Die Leidenschaft für schöne Kurven: ein einmaliger Mix aus Reisebericht und BildbandAuto fahren mit Genuss auf den schönsten Straßen der Welt: Patagonien für IndividualistenPassstraßen mit Ausblick, ein unschlagbares Bergpanorama und weite, unberührte Hochebenen: Die charakteristische Landschaft am südlichen Zipfel von Chile und Argentinien bietet ständig neue Highlights. "Soulful Driving" lautet Stephan Bogners Rezept für entspannte Roadtrips, bei denen Sie das Tempo selbst bestimmen. Passend dazu empfiehlt er komfortable Übernachtungsmöglichkeiten, gute Lokale und lohnende Ziele.Genießen Sie den Fahrtwind und finden Sie heraus, wo sich Gürteltier und Guanako Gute Nacht sagen: Mit CURVES-Patagonien entdecken Sie Panoramastraßen zum Verlieben und die besten Reisetipps für Touren auf zwei oder vier Rädern. Zweisprachig: Deutsch / EnglischCurve after curve a new adventure: Touring Patagonia with its fantastic mountain rangesReady for a trip to the "end of the world"? Patagonia stands for infinite and awe-inspiring landscapes, glistening glaciers and majestic peaks. Exclusively for the CURVES magazine, photographer Stephan Bogner explored the most beautiful scenic roads of this unique area.Marvellous aerial views show exciting routes right in the middle of nowhere. No matter whether you're driving casually through the wild steppe in your caravan or prefer the thrills of winding roads with breathtaking views: The extraordinary nature experience makes your trip most certainly an unforgettable journey.- Patagonia: Pictures of an overwhelming landscape you have never seen like this before- The loveliest routes and loneliest mountain roads: with maps for route planning- Unique driving experience on endless roads: for tours by car, motorbike, and caravaning- Exquisite recommendations: Patagonia's best hotels and sights- CURVES - the passion for lovely curves: an exceptional mix of travelogue and illustrated bookDelightful driving on the world's most beautiful roads: Patagonia for individualistsMountain passes with a view, matchless mountain panoramas and vast untouched plateaus: the characteristic landscape at the south end of Chile and Argentina is full of highlights. "Soulful Driving" is Stephan Bogners' motto for leisurely road trips, where you set the pace. To top this off, he recommends comfortable accommodation, fine restaurants and sights worth seeing.Enjoy the airflow and find out where armadillos and guanacos bid good night: With CURVES Patagonia you will explore and fall in love with scenic roads and find the best tips for tours on two or four wheels.

This book compiles available knowledge of the response of mountain ecosystems to recent climate and land use change and intends to bridge the gap between science, policy and the community concerned.The chapters present key concepts, major drivers and key processes of mountain response, providing transdisciplinary orientation to mountain studies incorporating experiences of academics, community leaders and policy-makers from developed and less developed countries. The book chapters are arranged in two sections. The first section concerns the response processes of mountain environments to climate change. This section addresses climate change itself (past, current and future changes of temperature and precipitation) and its impacts on the cryosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and human-environment systems. The second section focuses on the response processes of mountain environments to land use/land cover change. The case studies address effects of changing agriculture and pastoralism, forest/water resources management and urbanization processes, landscape management, and biodiversity conservation. The book is designed as an interdisciplinary publication which critically evaluates developments in mountains of the world with contributions from both social and natural sciences.

This book defines and discusses the term "e;hidden geographies"e; in two ways: systematically and by presenting a variety of examples of the research fields and topics concerning hidden geographies, with the aim of stimulating further basic and applied research in this area. While the term is quite rarely used in the scientific literature (more often as a figure of speech than to illustrate or problematize its deeper meaning), we argue that hidden geographies are everywhere and many of them have significant impacts on (other) natural and social phenomena and processes, subsequently triggering changes, for example in landscape, economy, culture, health or quality of life.The introductory section of the book conceptualises hidden geographies and discusses cognitive geography, symbolization of space, and the hidden geographies in mystical literature. Case studies of hidden environmental geographies address soils, air pollution, coastal pollution and the allocation of an astronomical tourism site. Revealing hidden historical and sacred places is illustrated through examples of the visualisation of the subterranean mining landscape, the analysis of the historical road network and trade, border stones and historical spatial boundaries, and the monastic Carthusian space. Hidden urban geographies are discussed in terms of the urban development of an entire city, presenting the role of geography in rescuing architecture, revealing illegal urbanisation, and the quality of habitation in Roma neighbourhoods. Case studies of hidden population geographies shed light on the ageing of rural populations and the impact of spatial-demographic disparities on fertility variations. Discussions of hidden social and economic geographies problematize recent social changes and conflicts in a country, present the implementation of the fourth industrial revolution and borders as hidden obstacles in the organisation of public transport. Hidden geographies are explicitly linked to perceptions and explanations in case studies that address local responses to perceived marginalisation in a city, the solo women travellers' perceived risk and safety, and hidden geographical contexts of visible post-war landscapes.The book brings such a diversity of views, ideas and examples related to hidden geographies that can serve both to deepen their understanding and their various impacts on our lives and environment, and to attract further cross-disciplinary interest in considering hidden geographies - in research and in our every-day lives.

Jeremiah joins long time Fort Yukon, Alaska trapper Jim Firmin on his wilderness trapline in one of the most remote places in North America, fulfilling a lifelong dream. They open up old trails, set traps, explore the country and share knowledge of the old time wilderness trappers who once roamed this vast unoccupied territory and made their living here, and the few who remain here today, including "The Last Alaskans" stars Heimo and Edna Korth, Tyler and Ashley Selden, Charlie Jagow and more,

Loaded with stunning color photographs, this practical guidebook, which encompasses the identification of moths, their caterpillars, and their vital roles in midwestern ecosystems, shows gardeners how to use native plants to attract these essential, but often overlooked and misunderstood, insects.

The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelous creatures made life on Earth possible-and how human life today would cease to exist without them.Paul Falkowski looks "e;under the hood"e; of microbes to find the engines of life, the actual working parts that do the biochemical heavy lifting for every living organism on Earth. With insight and humor, he explains how these miniature engines are built-and how they have been appropriated by and assembled like Lego sets within every creature that walks, swims, or flies. Falkowski shows how evolution works to maintain this core machinery of life, and how we and other animals are veritable conglomerations of microbes.A vibrantly entertaining book about the microbes that support our very existence, Life's Engines will inspire wonder about these elegantly complex nanomachines that have driven life since its origin. It also issues a timely warning about the dangers of tinkering with that machinery to make it more "e;efficient"e; at meeting the ever-growing demands of humans in the coming century.

The Fortieth Anniversary Edition of the Classic Exploration of the Youghiogheny River, Updated with a New Introduction and Epilogue

This book offers readers a thorough introduction to the Dinaric Karst System in Croatia. As the first comprehensive book on the country¿s caves and karst, it presents a wealth of fascinating photographs from its karst underground. To date, ca. 12,000 caves and pits have been confirmed in Croatia, approximately 35% of which contain constant groundwater. Knowing the amount, direction and quality of groundwater that has been discovered in caves of the Croatian karst allows us to predict with greater certainty the hydrogeological situation of some karst areas where no special drilling or borehole measurements were performed.In the process of building highways in the country¿s karst regions over the last thirty years, thousands of caverns (speleological features without natural entrances) were discovered and thoroughly explored. All of them were geologically mapped, surveyed, and photographed in detail. Extensive research was systematically carried out inCroatian karst regions on sections of roads, highways, cuttings, slides, tunnels, bridge foundations, viaducts, etc., while creating ca. 800 kilometers of highways (such as the Zagreb-Rijeka highway, Zagreb-Split-Dubrovnik highway, Y-Ipsilon of Istria semi-highway, Rijeka-Rupa highway, Zagreb-Zadar semi-highway, and the Rijeka bypass). Some of these caverns contain major chambers like in the ¿Sveti Rok¿ tunnel and in some of them, like in the ¿Vratä tunnel, it was even necessary to build a bridge. This bridge is the longest one in the world built in a tunnel over a cavern.The book describes this and many more features of the cave exploration of the Dinaric Karst System of Croatia, making it a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, cavers, and all other readers interested in karst.

A Argélia (ou El Djezaïr) está localizada no norte do continente africano banhada pelo Mar Mediterrâneo e faz parte da União do Magrebe Árabe (AMG). Sua superfície é de 2.381.741 km². A Argélia é o maior país da África, do mundo árabe e da bacia do Mediterrâneo, e o décimo maior país do mundo. Tem 1.622 km de costa mediterrânea. A Argélia compartilha mais de 6.385 km de fronteiras terrestres com vários países. Tem fronteiras comuns com sete países vizinhos, a saber: Tunísia no Nordeste. Líbia no Oriente. Níger e Mali no Sul. Mauritânia e República Árabe Saharaui Democrática (RASD) no Sudoeste. e Marrocos no Ocidente. A Argélia está dividida em 58 províncias (wilayas) que são autoridades regionais descentralizadas do Estado. Têm personalidade jurídica e autonomia financeira. São também distritos administrativos descentralizados do Estado com dois órgãos: Assembleia Provincial Popular (APW), órgão deliberativo. O prefeito (Wali), órgão executivo e representativo do Governo. Cada província (wilaya) abrange um número específico de municípios. O Daïra (subdivisão) é uma extensão administrativa da província. Assim, as 58 províncias incluem 1.541 municípios e 535 Daïras. A Assembleia Provincial do Povo (APW), que é o órgão deliberativo, delibera por deliberação sobre assuntos da sua competência e sobre qualquer assunto de interesse da província. O Prefeito (Wali), nomeado pelo Presidente da República, é representante do Estado e representante da província. Ele garante a aplicação das leis e regulamentos e garante a implementação das decisões da Assembleia Provincial do Povo (APW). Cada município tem seu próprio órgão deliberativo, a Assembleia Municipal Popular (APC), que elege seu próprio presidente, que atua como prefeito. A taxa de urbanização da Argélia é de cerca de 60% e está em constante crescimento. A Argélia tem mais de trinta e sete áreas urbanas com mais de 100.000 habitantes, quase todas concentradas no norte do país. A cidade densamente povoada é a capital Argel, uma megalópole de mais de seis milhões de habitantes, tornando-se a primeira cidade do Magreb. A Argélia tem uma posição geográfica privilegiada e uma área considerável. É composto por diferentes paisagens, áreas montanhosas, paisagens mediterrânicas, vastas terras altas semi-áridas e áreas desérticas lunares. No norte da Argélia, predomina o clima mediterrâneo, com verões quentes e úmidos e invernos amenos.

A comprehensive consolidation of data for the world, this book gives a short precis of each nation, each nation's history, its topography and a chronology of the development of geodetic surveying and coordinate systems for that specific nation. A starting point of information for understanding the world's datums and grids.

This book addresses disaster and disaster risk reduction (DRR) practices, constraints and capacity in the context of coastal Bangladesh.