Urban Geomorphology: Landforms and Processes in Cities

Urban Geomorphology: Landforms and Processes in Cities addresses human impacts on landscapes through occupation (urbanization) and development as a contribution to anthropogenic geomorphology or anthropogeomorphology. This includes a focus on land clearance, conservation issues, pollution, decay and erosion, urban climate, and anthropogenic climate change. These topics, as well as others, will be considered in in order to shed more light on the human transformation of natural landscapes and the environmental impacts and geomorphological hazards that environmental change can encompass. Its interdisciplinary approach is appropriate for audiences from a range of disciplines and professions, from geologists, conservationists, and land-use planners to architects and developers. Urban Geomorphology: Landforms and Processes in Cities not only transcends across disciplines, it also covers varied spatial-temporal frameworks and presents a diverse set of approaches and solutions to human impacts and geomorphological hazards within urban landscapes. Features a cross-disciplinary perspective, highlighting the importance of the geosciences to environmental science, engineering and public policyFocuses on the built environment as the location of concentrated human impacts and changeIs international in scope, including case studies from urban areas around the world INDICE: 1. Introduction2. Urban development and the alteration of the built environment3. Urban sprawl impact on UHIs and environmental health4. Urban climate, de-vegetation, and impacts of re-vegetation in cities5. Urban planning and design based on current models of development versus green approaches6. Climate change and natural hazards in the city7. Ethical growth and development of urbanscapes8. Urban sustainability and the propagation of cities9. Holistic approaches to landscape change shaping anthropogeomorphology10. Developing geomorphological hazards during the Anthropocene11. Conclusion

• ISBN: 978-0-12-811951-8
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 350
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés