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Peatlands and Environmental Change (Ravan Writers)

Peatlands and Environmental Change (Ravan Writers)

by Dan Charman (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $102.92
Synopsis

Due to an awareness of peatlands as a diminishing resource, peatland conservation and rehabilitation has become an important study area. Peatlands and Environmental Change offers a new approach by considering peatlands as a whole ecosystem, and thereby provides a better understanding of the importance and the consequences of the functioning of peatlands.

Contents include:






Peat and peatlands
Peat landforms and structure
Peatland hydrology and ecology
Origins and pest initiation
Peat accumulation
The peatland archive: palaeoenvironmental evidence
Autogenic change
Allogenic change
Peatland - environmental feedbacks
Values, exploitation and human impacts
Conservation management and restoration

$102.92

Quantity

10 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 312
 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 27 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 0470844108
ISBN 13: 9780470844106

Media Reviews
...an ideal introduction to peatlands... (Journal of Soils & Sediments, Vol.2, No.3, 2002)

...a welcome and timely addition... (Land Degradation and Development, November/December 2002)

...a comprehensive summary of peatland science...it will broaden specialists' and students' knowledge... (International Journal of Environment Studies, Vol.60, No.2, 2003)

certainly a book that should be on the shelves of all peatland researchers (Environmental Conservation, Vol.30, No.1, 2003)

. Overall, this is an outstanding book. Peatlands and Environmental Change is very highly recommended both for personal and library use, and should be on a range of reading lists . (The Holocene, July 2003)

... All in all this is a very good and well produced book .... and will become a widely cited reference text ... (Earth Surface Processes & Landforms, Spetember 2003)