| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 361 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations, maps (some color) |
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Oxford regional environments |
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Oxford regional environments.
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| Contents |
Foreword; Contents; Contributors; I. Systematic Framework; II. Regional Environments; III. Nature in the Human Context; Index |
| Summary |
The Physical Geography of South America, the eighth volume in the Oxford Regional Environments series, presents an enduring statement on the physical and biogeographic conditions of this remarkable continent and their relationships to human activity. It fills a void in recent environmental literature by assembling a team of specialists from within and beyond South America in order to provide an integrated, cross-disciplinary body of knowledge about this mostly tropical continent, together with its high mountains and temperate southern cone. The authors systematically cover the main components of the South American environment - tectonism, climate, glaciation, natural landscape changes, rivers, vegetation, animals, and soils. The book then presents more specific treatments of regions with special attributes from the tropical forests of the Amazon basin to the Atacama Desert and Patagonian steppe, and from the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific coasts to the high Andes. Additionally, the continents environments are given a human face by evaluating the roles played by people over time, from pre-European and European colonial impacts to the effects of modern agriculture and urbanization, and from interactions with El Nino events to prognoses for the future environments of the continent |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Physical geography -- South America
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TRAVEL -- General.
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Physical geography
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Geography
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Physische Geografie
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| SUBJECT |
South America -- Geography
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| Subject |
South America
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Südamerika
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Veblen, Thomas T., 1947- editor.
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Young, Kenneth R., editor.
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Orme, A. R., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780198031840 |
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019803184X |
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9786611158811 |
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6611158812 |
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0195139089 |
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9780195139082 |
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