Physical Geography Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. The Big Smoke (Routledge Revivals)

   A History of Air Pollution in London since Medieval Times

   By Peter Brimblecombe

   First published in 1987, Peter Brimblecombe's book provides an engaging historical account of air pollution in London, offering a fascinating insight into the development of air pollution controls against a changing social and economic background. He examines domestic and industrial pollution and...

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Climate: Present, Past and Future

   Volume 1: Fundamentals and Climate Now

   By Hubert Lamb

   First published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb’s study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing global data on the contemporary climates of the twentieth century....

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Climate: Present, Past and Future

   Volume 2: Climatic History and the Future

   By Hubert Lamb

   First published in 1977, the second volume of Climate: Present, Past and Future covers parts III and IV of Professor Hubert Lamb’s seminal and pioneering study of climatology. Part III provides a survey of evidence of types of climates over the last million years, and of methods of dating that...

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. Weather, Climate and Human Affairs (Routledge Revivals)

   A Book of Essays and Other Papers

   By Hubert H. Lamb

   This wide-ranging collection of essays is written by one of the world’s foremost experts on weather and climate. Six of the chapters have not been published before. The rest, taken from a variety of sources, have been thoroughly revised and brought right up to date – taking account, for example, of...

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
5. The Changing Climate (Routledge Revivals)

   Selected Papers

   By Hubert H. Lamb

   First published in 1966 these collected papers, written by the distinguished and visionary climatologist Hubert H. Lamb, describe how climates come about and give a history of climatic changes from the last ice-age to the present time....

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
6. Transforming Urban Waterfronts

   Fixity and Flow

   Edited by Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley, Quentin Stevens, Dirk Schubert

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. The History of the Study of Landforms: Volume 1 - Geomorphology Before Davis (Routledge Revivals)

   or the Development of Geomorphology

   By Richard J. Chorley, Antony J. Dunn, Robert P. Beckinsale

   This re-issue, first published in 1964, is the first of a seminal series analysing the development of the study of landforms, from both the geographical and geological point of view, with especial emphasis upon fluvial geomorphology. Volume 1 treats the subject up to the first important...

   Published November 11th 2009 by Routledge
8. The History of the Study of Landforms Volume 2

   The Life and Work of William Morris Davis

   By R. P. Beckinsale, R. J. Chorley, A J Dunn

   This volume is entirely devoted to the life and work of the world's most famous geomorphologist, William Morris Davis (1850-1934). It contains a treatment in depth of Davis' many contributions to the study of landforms including: the cycle of erosion denudation chronology arid and karst...

   Published November 11th 2009 by Routledge
9. Water Management in Megacities

   Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Olli Varis, Asit Biswas, Jan Lundqvist

   Efficient and equitable water, wastewater and stormwater management for the megacities is becoming an increasingly complex task. The special issue will focus on water management in its totality for megacities, including their technical, social, economic, legal, institutional and environmental...

   Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge