Introduction to Geography and the Environment, An

<div class="c-section-headers-number-list_container"> <h4 class="h5">Preface to the fourth edition</h4> <h4 class="h5">List of contributors</h4> <h4 class="h5">Editor's acknowledgements</h4> <h3>Part I: The role of physical geography</h3> <ul> <li>Chapter 1. Approaching physical geography</li> </ul> <h3>Part II: Continent and oceans</h3> <ul> <li>Chapter 2. Earth geology and tectonics</li> <li>Chapter 3. Oceans</li> </ul> <h3>Part III: Past, present and future climate and weather</h3> <ul> <li>Chapter 4. The Pleistocene</li> <li>Chapter 5. The Holocene</li> <li>Chapter 6. Atmospheric processes</li> <li>Chapter 7. Contemporary climate change</li> <li>Chapter 8. Global climate and weather</li> <li>Chapter 9. Regional and local climates</li> </ul> <h3>Part IV: Biogeography and ecology</h3> <ul> <li>Chapter 10. The biosphere</li> <li>Chapter 11. Ecosystem processes</li> <li>Chapter 12. Freshwater ecosystems</li> <li>Chapter 13. Vegetation and climate change</li> </ul> <h3>Part V: Geomorphology and hydrology</h3> <ul> <li>Chapter 14. Weathering</li> <li>Chapter 15. Slope processes and landform evolution</li> <li>Chapter 16. Sediments and sedimentation</li> <li>Chapter 17. Soils</li> <li>Chapter 18. Catchment hydrology</li> <li>Chapter 19. Fluvial geomorphology and river management</li> <li>Chapter 20. Solutes and water quality</li> <li>Chapter 21. Drylands</li> <li>Chapter 22. Coasts</li> <li>Chapter 23. Glaciers and ice sheets</li> <li>Chapter 24. Permafrost and periglaciation</li> </ul> <h3>Part VI: Monitoring and management</h3> <ul> <li>Chapter 25. Monitoring environmental change</li> <li>Chapter 26. Dealing with hazards and environmental change</li> </ul> </div>