The objective of landslide hazard zonation is subdivision of an area into zones with an equal susceptibility to or probability for the occurrence of mass movements. Many different methods have been proposed in the literature. These methods have in common the combination and integration of a series of input maps, which is a time consuming process if done manually.
About the cover : The natural landscape transformed by human action : only the hilltops still carry the forest that once draped the hillsides and valleys around the village of Khodi in lower Nepal. The slope have been terraced and now stand under rice; irrigation controls the flow of water into the stream below. But evidence of the natural forces at work here still marks the countryside. The in…
The geographer regards the Earth as more than a globe suspended in space. In general, he is concerned with the planet’s lower atmosphere, surface skin, and thin layer of crustal material, or the land-sea-air interface. Here it is that life occurs, localities differ, various conditions appear simultaneously, different processes have been at work since the Earth became relatively stable, and ch…
This fifth edition, like its predecessors, is designed to cover the main elements of geography, physical and cultural, in a form suitable foe beginning courses in college geography. In the selection of materials, geography’s contribution to a liberal education is kept in the foreground.
Australia- a geography amply demonstrates the essential functions of the geographer – the making of meaningful descriptions and the interpretation of the distinctive place on the surface of the globe. It is thirty years and more since the last comprehensive advanced geography of Australia was published, and this new volume will be welcomed by advanced students ci geography and those in allied…