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Author:   David L. Higgitt (University of Durham) ,  E. Mark Lee (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.572kg
ISBN:  

9780631222736

ISBN 10:   0631222731
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   25 October 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures vii List of Tables xi List of Contributors xiii Preface xv Figure Acknowledgements xvii Chapter 1 A Brief Time of History 1 David L. Higgitt Chapter 2 Back A'long: a Millennial Geomorphology 27 Denys Brunsden Chapter 3 The Evolution of Hillslope Processes 61 David K. C. Jones Chapter 4 Valley-floor and Floodplain Processes 90 Barbara T. Rumsby Chapter 5 Fluvial Processes 116 Janet M. Hooke Chapter 6 Estuaries and Coasts: Morphological Adjustments and Process Domains 147 E. Mark Lee Chapter 7 Sediment Transfer in Upland Environments 190 David L. Higgitt, Jeff Warburton and Martin G. Evans Chapter 8 Fine Particulate Sediment Transfers in Lowland Rural Environments 215 Ian D. L. Foster Chapter 9 Living with Natural Hazards: the Costs and Management Framework 237 E. Mark Lee Chapter 10 Geomorphology for the Third Millennium 269 David L. Higgitt and E. Mark Lee Geographical Index 289 Subject Index 293

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"This significant and timely volume provides a contemporary body of information on the function of geomorphological processes in landscape and environmental management in human history." Choice "I enjoyed this particular journey through time, which contains some thought-provoking (though invariably qualitative) observations on the making of the British landscape." Basil Gomez, Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Author Information

David Higgitt, is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Durham. He has published widely in geomorphological literature including a review series in Progress in Physical Geography, and recent papers in Catena, Geomorphology, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Environmental Management. He has also written several invited book chapters. Mark Lee is Senior Research Associate, Department of Marine Sciences and Coastal Management at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. As a consultant geomorphologist he has extensive experience of working on engineering geomorphology projects (especially coastal management) in UK and overseas. Has written numerous papers in geomorphological literature including authoring the recent DoE overviews on soil erosion and landsliding in the UK.

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