Climate and Anthropogenic Impacts on Earth Surface Processes in the Anthropocene

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Climate and Anthropogenic Impacts on Earth Surface Processes in the Anthropocene outlines our understanding of the effects of ongoing and accelerated environmental changes on present-day Earth surface processes while also detailing the systematic and quantitative methodologies on the actual drivers of these processes. The book covers denudational hillslope and fluvial processes, source-to-sink fluxes, sedimentary budgets, and other drivers that are controlled by a range of environmental drivers. It provides a wide range of advanced techniques and methods of data collection and generation, together with various approaches and methods of data analysis and geomorphologic modeling. The book is a valuable resource for upper-level undergraduates, graduates, and academics studying Earth surface processes, as well as researchers and professionals needing a comprehensive overview of Earth surface process change and influence during the Anthropocene.

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Block 1 Changing Earth Surface Processes Section 1 Introduction 1. Global environmental change: from past to present 2. Drivers of earth surface processes 3. The Anthropocene Section 2 Detection and quantification of Earth surface processes 4. Sedimentary records of Global Environmental Change 5. Landform record 6. Dating techniques 7. Remote sensing 8. Process monitoring 9. Conclusive remarks about technical issues and improvements on the identification of `Global environmental change Block 2 Climatic and anthropogenic drivers of earth surface processes Section 3 Climate impacts on earth surface processes 10. Glacial and periglacial processes 11. Hillslope and mass-wasting processes 12. Fluvial processes 13. Aeolian processes 14. Estuaries and deltas 15. Coastal processes (cliffs, beaches, barriers, coastal dunes ), and wetlands 16. Karst processes 17. Considerations on the inherent complexities of disentangling anthropogenic and natural signals in landscape changes Section 4 Anthropogenic impacts on earth surface processes 18. Glacial and periglacial processes 19. Hillslope and mass-wasting processes 20. Fluvial processes 21. Aeolian processes 22. Estuaries and deltas 23. Coastal processes (cliffs, beaches, barriers, coastal dunes ), and wetlands 24. Karst processes 25. Conclusive remarks highlighting key global problems Block 3 The temporal and spatial scales Section 5 The (relative) role of climate and anthropogenic impacts on earth surface processes 26. Through the Anthropocene: Sediment-routing at the global scale in the Anthropocene / The sediment cascade in the Anthropocene 27. Today 28. Future outlook, prediction, modelling Section 6 Suggestions for adapted and sustainable mitigation and management strategies 29. (Sub)polar regions 30. Mountain areas 31. Karst environments 32. River systems (river restoration/rehabilitation) 33. Estuaries and deltas 34. Beaches, dunes and coastal areas, and wetlands 35. Arid environments (deserts) 36. Conclusive remarks disentangling climatic from anthropic signals in earth surface processes and highlighting future strategies