TY - BOOK AU - Slaymaker, Olav. AU - Spencer, Tom. TI - Physical geography and global environmental change: understanding global environmental change SN - 0582298296 U1 - 910.02 PY - 1998/// CY - Essex PB - Longman KW - Physical Geography KW - Environments and Climate Change KW - Global Environmental Change KW - Environmental sciences N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter 1 The nature of physical geography today -- Chapter 2 The nature of global environmental change -- Chapter 3 Understanding past environmental changes -- Chapter 4 The challenge for physical geography -- Chapter 5 Tropical forest dynamics: processes and impacts of landcover transformation -- Chapter 6 Desertification and the physical geography of the semiarid environment -- Chapter 7 Polar environments and climate change -- Chapter 7 Polar environments and climate change ER -