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Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa

Author : Jasper Knight

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 465 pages

File Size : 12,98 MB

Release : 2016-06-23

Category : Science

ISBN : 1316571580

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Book Description

Ongoing climate change necessitates advances in our understanding of the interrelationships between climate, landscape-shaping processes and human activity over long time periods, especially in areas that are already climatically stressed. This volume presents new ideas on macroscale landscape evolution; mountain, fluvial and aeolian processes; and environments in southern Africa, a key region in the story of human evolution during the last two million years. Interdisciplinary in scope, it brings together an international team of experts to synthesise the latest research and understanding of landscape-human relationships in this region. It incorporates results from the emerging fields of geoarchaeology and cultural landscapes and utilises the latest data and analytical techniques. A key reference for researchers studying hominid evolution, geoarchaeology and environmental change, it provides a benchmark study of southern African landscape evolution during the Quaternary. It will also appeal to professionals and policymakers with interests in future human-landscape evolution in southern Africa.



Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics

Author : Sarah E. Metcalfe

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 826 pages

File Size : 15,97 MB

Release : 2012-08-24

Category : Science

ISBN : 1118336178

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The global climate changes that led to the expansion and contraction of high latitude ice sheets during the Quaternary period were associated with equally dramatic changes in tropical environments. These included shifts in vegetation zones, changes in the hydrology and ecology of lakes and rivers, and fluctuations in the size of mountain glaciers and sandy deserts. Until recently it was thought that such changes were triggered by fluctuations in the distribution of polar ice cover. Now there is increasing recognition that the tropics themselves have acted as drivers of global climate change over a range of timescales. The aim of Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics is to provide a synthesis of the changes that occurred in tropical terrestrial and marine systems during the Pleistocene and Holocene, complementing data-derived reconstructions with output from state-of-the-art climate models. It is targeted at final-year undergraduate students and research specialists, but will provide an introduction to tropical Quaternary research for a variety of other readers.



Southern African Landscapes and Environmental Change

Author : Peter J. Holmes

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 31,82 MB

Release : 2018-07-04

Category : Science

ISBN : 1134972393

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This volume provides a textbook and reference work on the physical and biotic landscapes of Southern Africa. It examines the links between these environments and the ways in which they have been, are and will likely be subject to change. It covers the geomorphology, soils, vegetation and land use across a range of landscapes, including mountains, coasts, savannah, drylands and wetlands, and identifies the impacts of current and potential climate change and other factors on these environments. The geographical focus is on the region defined by Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Swaziland. Illustrated throughout in full colour, the book will serve as a reference volume for researchers and environmental professionals internationally, as well as a textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate-level students of geography, ecology and environmental studies in Southern Africa.





Landscape Evolution, Neotectonics and Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Cameroon

Author : Jörgen Runge

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 302 pages

File Size : 27,69 MB

Release : 2012-05-30

Category : Nature

ISBN : 0203120205

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Founded in 1966, the internationally recognized and acclaimed SeriesPalaeoecology of Africa publishes interdisciplinary scientific papers on landscape evolution and on former environments of the African continent. Beginning with topics such as changes in climate and vegetation cover, the papers expand horizons and interconnections to various typ



The Geography of South Africa

Author : Jasper Knight

Publisher : Springer

Page : 326 pages

File Size : 10,39 MB

Release : 2018-10-03

Category : Science

ISBN : 3319949748

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This edited collection examines contemporary directions in geographical research on South Africa. It encompasses a cross section of selected themes of critical importance not only to the discipline of Geography in South Africa, but also of relevance to other areas of the Global South. All chapters are original contributions, providing a state of the art research baseline on key themes in physical, human and environmental geography, and in understanding the changing geographical landscapes of modern South Africa. These contributions set the scene for an understanding of the relationships between modern South Africa and the wider contemporary world, including issues of sustainable development and growth in the Global South.







Quaternary Deserts and Climatic Change

Author : A.S. Alsharhan

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 636 pages

File Size : 40,3 MB

Release : 2020-08-26

Category : Science

ISBN : 1000099873

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Book Description

These proceedings record the results of climate change in many areas which are hyper-arid deserts today but which, almost cyclically, at intervals of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, have had a much more humid climate.