Climate and Anthropogenic Impacts on Earth Surface Processes in the Anthropocene
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2024
- Editors: Achim Beylich, Daniel Vázquez Tarrío, Dongfeng Li, Marc Oliva, Mario Morellón Marteles
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 2 1 5 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 2 1 6 - 2
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Request a sales quoteClimate and Anthropogenic Impacts on Earth Surface Processes in the Anthropocene outlines our understanding of the effects of ongoing and accelerated environmental changes on present-day Earth surface processes while also detailing the systematic and quantitative methodologies on the actual drivers of these processes. The book covers denudational hillslope and fluvial processes, source-to-sink fluxes, sedimentary budgets, and other drivers that are controlled by a range of environmental drivers. It provides a wide range of advanced techniques and methods of data collection and generation, together with various approaches and methods of data analysis and geomorphologic modeling.
The book is a valuable resource for upper-level undergraduates, graduates, and academics studying Earth surface processes, as well as researchers and professionals needing a comprehensive overview of Earth surface process change and influence during the Anthropocene.
- Comprehensively covers climatic and anthropogenic drivers of earth surface processes, including detection and quantification techniques
- Includes the latest research and suggestions for adapted and sustainable mitigation and management strategies
- Includes worked examples and case studies of anthropogenic and climate influences on Earth surface processes
Researchers in geology, geomorphology, and Earth surface processes-related fields needing a comprehensive overview of the impact on these processes during the Anthropocene, Upper-level undergraduates, graduates and academics studying earth surface processes at institutions around the world
Block 1 Changing Earth Surface Processes
Section 1 Introduction
1. Global environmental change: from past to present
2. Drivers of earth surface processes
3. The Anthropocene
Section 2 Detection and quantification of Earth surface processes
4. Sedimentary records of Global Environmental Change
5. Landform record
6. Dating techniques
7. Remote sensing
8. Process monitoring
9. Conclusive remarks about technical issues and improvements on the identification of ‘Global environmental change’
Block 2 Climatic and anthropogenic drivers of earth surface processes
Section 3 Climate impacts on earth surface processes
10. Glacial and periglacial processes
11. Hillslope and mass-wasting processes
12. Fluvial processes
13. Aeolian processes
14. Estuaries and deltas
15. Coastal processes (cliffs, beaches, barriers, coastal dunes…), and wetlands
16. Karst processes
17. Considerations on the inherent complexities of disentangling anthropogenic and natural signals in landscape changes
Section 4 Anthropogenic impacts on earth surface processes
18. Glacial and periglacial processes
19. Hillslope and mass-wasting processes
20. Fluvial processes
21. Aeolian processes
22. Estuaries and deltas
23. Coastal processes (cliffs, beaches, barriers, coastal dunes…), and wetlands
24. Karst processes
25. Conclusive remarks highlighting key global problems
Block 3 The temporal and spatial scales
Section 5 The (relative) role of climate and anthropogenic impacts on earth surface processes
26. Through the Anthropocene: Sediment-routing at the global scale in the Anthropocene / The sediment cascade in the Anthropocene
27. Today
28. Future outlook, prediction, modelling
Section 6 Suggestions for adapted and sustainable mitigation and management strategies
29. (Sub)polar regions
30. Mountain areas
31. Karst environments
32. River systems (river restoration/rehabilitation)
33. Estuaries and deltas
34. Beaches, dunes and coastal areas, and wetlands
35. Arid environments (deserts)
36. Conclusive remarks disentangling climatic from anthropic signals in earth surface processes and highlighting future strategies
Section 1 Introduction
1. Global environmental change: from past to present
2. Drivers of earth surface processes
3. The Anthropocene
Section 2 Detection and quantification of Earth surface processes
4. Sedimentary records of Global Environmental Change
5. Landform record
6. Dating techniques
7. Remote sensing
8. Process monitoring
9. Conclusive remarks about technical issues and improvements on the identification of ‘Global environmental change’
Block 2 Climatic and anthropogenic drivers of earth surface processes
Section 3 Climate impacts on earth surface processes
10. Glacial and periglacial processes
11. Hillslope and mass-wasting processes
12. Fluvial processes
13. Aeolian processes
14. Estuaries and deltas
15. Coastal processes (cliffs, beaches, barriers, coastal dunes…), and wetlands
16. Karst processes
17. Considerations on the inherent complexities of disentangling anthropogenic and natural signals in landscape changes
Section 4 Anthropogenic impacts on earth surface processes
18. Glacial and periglacial processes
19. Hillslope and mass-wasting processes
20. Fluvial processes
21. Aeolian processes
22. Estuaries and deltas
23. Coastal processes (cliffs, beaches, barriers, coastal dunes…), and wetlands
24. Karst processes
25. Conclusive remarks highlighting key global problems
Block 3 The temporal and spatial scales
Section 5 The (relative) role of climate and anthropogenic impacts on earth surface processes
26. Through the Anthropocene: Sediment-routing at the global scale in the Anthropocene / The sediment cascade in the Anthropocene
27. Today
28. Future outlook, prediction, modelling
Section 6 Suggestions for adapted and sustainable mitigation and management strategies
29. (Sub)polar regions
30. Mountain areas
31. Karst environments
32. River systems (river restoration/rehabilitation)
33. Estuaries and deltas
34. Beaches, dunes and coastal areas, and wetlands
35. Arid environments (deserts)
36. Conclusive remarks disentangling climatic from anthropic signals in earth surface processes and highlighting future strategies
- No. of pages: 325
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 1, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443132155
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Achim Beylich
Achim A. Beylich is a geomorphologist with 26 years of work experience in field- and laboratory-based process geomorphic research in various climatic environments and landscapes in Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Canada, Russia, Germany, Austria, Norway and Spain. Since 2004 he has initiated and led a number of international and interdisciplinary research groups, networks and programs on geomorphologic earth surface processes and landscape development under ongoing or accelerated climate change and increasing anthropogenic pressures. He has over 100 scientific publications in journals and books, and numerous edited works. He is Editor-in-Chief for the Geomorphology journal (Elsevier) and an Editorial Board Member for several international scientific journals. He is currently Chair of the IAG Working Group DENUCHANGE and of the Geomorphological Research Group of Norway (IAG GeoNor), and initiator and Chair of the Nordic Network of Geomorphology Groups from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland (IAG GeoNorth).
Affiliations and expertise
Geomorphological Field Laboratory, NorwayDT
Daniel Vázquez Tarrío
Daniel Vázquez Tarrío holds a PhD in Geology from the University of Oviedo and currently works as Staff Researcher at Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME, CSIC). Previously, he was an Assistant Lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He is a fluvial geomorphologist specialized in the study of river hydraulics, sediment transport and morphodynamics of gravel-bed rivers. His approach to these questions involves coupling the field monitoring of these processes with the computation and modelling of water and sediment flows. He has also worked extensively on the impact of human interventions (dams and embankments) and land-use changes on sediment balances and flood-hazards in river systems. Daniel Vázquez Tarrío has investigated in these topics within the framework of several research projects focused in many rivers from Spain and France.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Geo-Hazards & Climate Change, IGME, CSIC, SpainDL
Dongfeng Li
Dr. Dongfeng Li is an Assistant Professor at the College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University. He is leading the Cryosphere and River Lab. He is broadly interested in climate change, glaciers, permafrost, rivers, sediment transport, and hydropower dams. His current research focuses on sediment transport processes within the Earth’s cold environments, specifically driven by atmospheric, cryospheric, and hydrologic processes using remote sensing data and techniques, in-situ and field measurements, and numerical modeling approaches. During his PhD, he for the first time assessed the impacts of modern climate change on fluvial sediment fluxes in High Mountain Asia, for which he was awarded the 2019 IPCC Scholarship Award and the 2023 Grove Karl Gilbert Award of the American Association of Geographers. He is also the co-founder of the Chinese Geomorphology Club for early-career scientists and a core-member of the DENUCHANGE working group under the International Association of Geomorphologists. He serves as the associate editor of JGR: Earth Surface, editorial board of the Hydrological Processes, guest editors of Geomorphology and Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
Affiliations and expertise
Peking University, ChinaMO
Marc Oliva
Marc Oliva holds a PhD in Geography from the Universitat de Barcelona, where he works now as research scientist and leads a research group on Antarctic, Arctic and Alpine Environments. He has carried out research and teaching activities in universities of Portugal, Canada, Switzerland, Spain and Russia. He has participated in eight expeditions to Antarctica and four to the High Arctic. Apart from the Polar Regions, he has also conducted research in other mountain regions (Rocky Mountains, Alps, N Iceland, Pamir, Tien Shan, Pyrenees, and Cantabrian Mountains), which has provided him a wide comprehension of Earth surface processes in cold-climate environments. His research interests include the study of geomorphological processes and past environments and climate in the Polar Regions and high mountains using a wide range of natural records (glacial, periglacial, and lacustrine).
Affiliations and expertise
Universitat de Barcelona, SpainMM
Mario Morellón Marteles
Mario Morellón Marteles is a lecturer in Geology at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. His research has been focused on the reconstruction of past environmental changes based on the multidisciplinary analysis of lake sediments from key areas (Mediterranean Basin, South America, and Tibet) influenced by the main modes of climate variability (North Atlantic Oscillation, ENSO, and Indian Summer Moonson) and/or different human impacts, from the late Pleistocene to the Anthropocene. His approach is based on sedimentological and geochemical proxies but integrates biological indicators as well. During his career in Spain, United Kingdom and Switzerland, M. Morellón has led and participated in projects and scientific initiatives aimed to disentangle the relative contributions of human activities and climate variability on recent environmental change, integrating different natural archives and proxies.
Affiliations and expertise
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain