This text offers a grounding in the range of approaches chosen by geomorphologists to explain the nature and origins of landscapes. The aim is to provide the reader with an appreciation of the breadth of geomorphology and an understanding of the totality of the earth surface processes that operate. The historical development of the subject is used to demonstrate the spiral nature of intellectual progress in which ideas and frameworks have been discredited, neglected, rediscovered and resurrected. The book provides an overview of modern and past debate, equipping the reader with an awareness of the geomorphological tradition and the uncertainties of the subject. It moves on to discuss the purpose of geomorphology and to explain how process studies can be transferred across scale barriers to examine landscape development over long time periods. Landscape characterization and change brings together not just the theoretical and historical underpinning of the subject, but also its scientific basis.
- ISBN10 0340719788
- ISBN13 9780340719787
- Publish Date 31 December 2001
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 21 August 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Hodder Arnold
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English