В книге рассмотрено влияние рельефа и геоморфологических условий на формирование среды жизни и эстетическое восприятие людей окружающей природы. Изложены представления об эстетической геоморфологии и подходах к эстетической оценке рельефа. Что для людей важнее – безопасность или красота? Можно ли оценить красоту рельефа? Где граница между наукой и искусством? Эти и другие вопросы автор пытается обсудить.
Книга содержит 9 научных глав и главу «География как искусство», где представлены рисунки Н.А. Богданова, а также фото автора.

Rivers are the arteries of the landscape, integrating the impacts of change in atmospheric and terrestrial systems and delivering these to the coast. En route, geomorphological processes create dynamic and diverse habitats, both in-stream and in riparian and floodplain environments (Petts and Amoros, 1996a). The dynamics of channel change have led to conflict with human resource development with the outcome that many river and riparian environments have been significantly modified and damaged (Brookes and Shields, 1996; Sear et al., 2000). Responses to change in driving variables (runoff regime and sediment loads) have become dampened or prevented through river maintenance (Sear et al., 1995), while in other circumstances, land-use and land management changes, coupled to more efficient drainage networks, may have increased system sensitivity to environmental change (Newson and Leeks, 1987; Robinson, 1990). <...>

Коллективная монография посвящена развитию методических (конструктивных) идей геоморфологии городских территорий. Исследование направлено на изучение современного рельефа и антропогенно-геоморфологических систем (АГМС) разного уровня, закономерностей их формирования в различных природных условиях, их свойств, организованности, особенностей функционирования.

В сборник вошли основные доклады и сделанные кураторами обзоры работы секций XV Пленума Геоморфологической комиссии. Рассматриваются проблемы современного экзогенного рельефообраэования в различных природных зонах, взаимосвязей между древними климатическими обстановками и развитием рельефа, антропогенное рельефообраэование и принципы прогноза геоморфологических процессов. Сборник представляет интерес для геоморфологов, геологов- четвертичников, фиэико-географов.

The study of hillslopes is of concern to many scientists - geologists, pedologists, hydrologists, engineers, and geomorphologists. As a result the literature on the subject is dispersed through many books and journals and the approaches to the subject are varied. In writing this text I have attempted to draw on all the relevant disciplines and particularly to use the contributions of the exponents of rock and soil mechanics.

I take pleasure in presenting a further edition (volume 32) of the internationally recognized and acclaimed series ‘Palaeoecology of Africa’ (PoA). Already since 1966 the series has published a large number of interdisciplinary scientific papers on landscape evolution and on former environments of selected areas within the African continent. Since the re-edition and re-launch of ‘Palaeoecology of Africa’ in 2007/2008 it is the fifth volume of the yearbook series that follows the new concept and layout under the restructured editorial board and by support of the publishing houses Routledge and CRC Press. Therefore, the ambitious goal of the editorial board and its editor in chief to have one book a year was almost reached. Many thanks go to all the contributing authors, colleagues and friends who directly and indirectly contributed during the last years to make this re-edition of ‘Palaeoecology of Africa’ a reality and a success. <...>

This book has been compiled and written by members of the Commission on Geomorphological Survey and Mapping of the International Geographical Union. Originally proposed in 1976 as a text to accompany and explain the lnternationtll Geomorphological Map of Europe (1: 2.5 million), the oudine of the book was prepared by the Commission at a meeting in Nove Mesto, Czechoslovakia, in 1977. Since then, there has been a considerable delay in publishing the International Map; meanwhile, work on this book progressed and has overtaken the schedule for printing the Map. At the same time, the book has been enlarged and its aims have changed to some extent: it is no longer envisaged simply as an explanation of the Map but as a work in its own right, providing the first comprehensive survey of the geomorphology of Europe <...>

Karst covers more than 13% of the continental ice-free surface of our planet, with major coverage in the Middle East and Central Asia where it occupies approximately 23% of the land surface. According to some estimates more than 20% of the world’s population is consuming groundwater originated from karst aquifers. At the same time, the management of karst aquifers and their water resources is more problematic compared to any other aquifer type due to uncertainties in defining their boundaries, often irregular drainage regime, and vulnerability to pollution. All these problems are closely related to high heterogeneity of karst aquifers and their locally very high permeability <...>

Обобщен опыт качественного и количественного изучения морфологии рельефа земной поверхности различного генезиса, а также морфологического эффекта; геологических и географических процессов.

Рассматриваются типы и методы проведения полевых и камеральных геоморфологических исследований. Показаны принципы геоморфологического картографирования и морфометрического анализа рельефа. Излагаются разнообразные методы общего геоморфологического анализа. Освещен вопрос изучения современной динамики рельефа с целью прогнозирования нефтегазоносности. Обозначено практическое значение палеогеоморфологического анализа в нефтегазовой отрасли.
Для студентов и аспирантов, изучающих геологию. Может быть полезно преподавателям и работникам нефтегазовой отрасли и топливно-энергетического комплекса.