Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa write by Jasper Knight. This book was released on 2016-06-23. Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a benchmark study of southern African landscape evolution during the Quaternary, for researchers, professionals and policymakers.
The Geography of South Africa
The Geography of South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Geography of South Africa write by Jasper Knight. This book was released on 2018-10-03. The Geography of South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited collection examines contemporary directions in geographical research on South Africa. It encompasses a cross section of selected themes of critical importance not only to the discipline of Geography in South Africa, but also of relevance to other areas of the Global South. All chapters are original contributions, providing a state of the art research baseline on key themes in physical, human and environmental geography, and in understanding the changing geographical landscapes of modern South Africa. These contributions set the scene for an understanding of the relationships between modern South Africa and the wider contemporary world, including issues of sustainable development and growth in the Global South.
Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa
Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa write by Jasper Knight. This book was released on 2016-06-23. Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ongoing climate change necessitates advances in our understanding of the interrelationships between climate, landscape-shaping processes and human activity over long time periods, especially in areas that are already climatically stressed. This volume presents new ideas on macroscale landscape evolution; mountain, fluvial and aeolian processes; and environments in southern Africa, a key region in the story of human evolution during the last two million years. Interdisciplinary in scope, it brings together an international team of experts to synthesise the latest research and understanding of landscape-human relationships in this region. It incorporates results from the emerging fields of geoarchaeology and cultural landscapes and utilises the latest data and analytical techniques. A key reference for researchers studying hominid evolution, geoarchaeology and environmental change, it provides a benchmark study of southern African landscape evolution during the Quaternary. It will also appeal to professionals and policymakers with interests in future human-landscape evolution in southern Africa.
Quaternary Deserts and Climatic Change
Quaternary Deserts and Climatic Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quaternary Deserts and Climatic Change write by A.S. Alsharhan. This book was released on 2020-08-26. Quaternary Deserts and Climatic Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These proceedings record the results of climate change in many areas which are hyper-arid deserts today but which, almost cyclically, at intervals of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, have had a much more humid climate.
Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics
Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics write by Jürgen Runge. This book was released on 2021-11-28. Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book celebrates the relaunch of the African Pollen Database, presents state-of-the-art of modern and ancient pollen data from sub-Saharan Africa, and promotes Open Access science. Pollen grains are powerful tools for the study of past vegetation dynamics because they preserve well within sedimentary deposits and have a huge diversity in ornamentation that allows different taxa to be determined. The reconstruction of past vegetation from the examination of ancient pollen records thus can be used to characterize the nature of past landscapes (e.g. abundance of forests vs. grasslands), provide insights into changes in biodiversity, and gain empirical evidence of vegetation response to climatic change and human activity. In this, the 35th Volume of "Palaeoecology of Africa", we bring together new data and extensive synthetic reviews to provide novel insights into the relationships between human evolution, human activity, climate change and vegetation dynamics during the Quaternary, the last 2.6 million years. Current and ongoing climate and land-use change is exerting pressure on modern vegetation formations and threatening the livelihoods and wellbeing of many peoples in Africa. In this book the focus is on the Quaternary because it is during this geological period that the modern vegetation formations developed into their current configurations against a backdrop of high magnitude global climate change (glacial-interglacial cycles), human evolution, and a growing human land-use footprint. In this book the latest information is presented and collated from around the African continent to parameterize past vegetation states, identify the drivers of vegetation change, and assess the vegetation resilience to change. To achieve this research from two broad themes are covered: (i) the present is the key to the past (i.e. studies which improve our understanding of modern environments so that we can better interpret evidence from the past), and (ii) the past is the key to the future (i.e. studies which unlock information on how and why vegetation changed in the past so one can better anticipate trajectories of future change). This Open Access book will provide a strong foundation for future research exploring past ecological, environmental and climatic change within Africa and the surrounding islands. The book is organized regionally (covering western, eastern, central, and southern Africa) and it contains specialized articles focused on particular topics (such as modern pollen-vegetation relationships and fire as a driver of vegetation change), as well as regional and pan-African syntheses drawing together decades of research to assess key scientific questions (including the role of climate in driving vegetation change and the role of vegetation change in human evolution). These articles will be useful to students and teachers from high school to the highest level of university who are interested in the origins and dynamics of vegetation in Africa. Furthermore, it is also meant to provide societally relevant information that can act as an inspiration for the development of sustainable management practices for the future.
