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 is a book about geography. It is also about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – a fundamental set of automated ideas and concepts rooted in over 2500 years of explorations and geographic research (Dobson, 1995) and designed to provide answers to questions based on mapped data. As a practicing geographer I have long been intrigued by the idea of geographer as explorer.
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.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is the organized activity by which people : • Measure aspects of geographic phenomena and processes; • Represent these measurements, usually in the form of a computer database, to emphasize spatial themes, entities and relationships; • Operate upon these representation to produce more measurements, and to discover new relationship by integrating dis…
A unique, authoritative surpassed collection of comparative information about the cities, countries, and geographic feature of the world. This completely update and expanded version of THE WORLD IN FIGURES (Winley, 1973) is above all, a book comparisons.
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…
Exciting developments in earthquake science have benefited from new observations, improved computational technologies, and improved modelling capabilities. Designing realistic supercomputer simulation models for the complete earthquake generation process is a grand scientific challenge due to the complexity of phenomena and range of scales involved from microscopic to global.
Fundamentals of physical Volcanology is a comprehensive overview of the processes that control when and how volcanoes erupt. Understanding these processes involves bringing together ideas from a number of disciplines, including branches of geology, such as petrology and geochemistry; and aspects of physics, such as fluid dynamics and thermodynamics.