Climate and Anthropogenic Impacts on Earth Surface Processes in the Anthropocene

Langue : Anglais

Coordonnateurs : Beylich Achim, Tarrío Daniel Vázquez, Li Dongfeng, Oliva Marc, Marteles Mario Morellón

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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.

Block 1 Changing Earth Surface ProcessesSection 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 processesSection 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 scalesSection 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

Achim A. Beylich is a geomorphologist with 26 years of work experience in field- and laboratory-based process geomorphic research in various climatic environments and landscapes in Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Canada, Russia, Germany, Austria, Norway and Spain. Since 2004 he has initiated and led a number of international and interdisciplinary research groups, networks and programs on geomorphologic earth surface processes and landscape development under ongoing or accelerated climate change and increasing anthropogenic pressures. He has over 100 scientific publications in journals and books, and numerous edited works. He is Editor-in-Chief for the Geomorphology journal (Elsevier) and an Editorial Board Member for several international scientific journals. He is currently Chair of the IAG Working Group DENUCHANGE and of the Geomorphological Research Group of Norway (IAG GeoNor), and initiator and Chair of the Nordic Network of Geomorphology Groups from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland (IAG GeoNorth).
Daniel Vázquez Tarrío holds a PhD in Geology from the University of Oviedo and currently works as Assistant Lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He is a fluvial geomorphologist specialized in the study of river hydraulics, sediment transport and morphodynamics of gravel-bed rivers. His approach to these questions involves coupling the field monitoring of these processes with the computation and modelling of water and sediment flows. He has also worked extensively on the impact of human interventions (dams and embankments) and land-use changes on sediment balances and flood-hazards in river systems. Daniel Vázquez Tarrío has investigated in these topics within the framework of several research projects focused in many rivers from Spain and France.
Dr. Dongfeng Li is a Research Fellow at the Geography Department of National University of Singapore. He is broadly interested in climate change, glaciers, permafrost, rivers, sediment transport, an

Comprehensively covers climatic and anthropogenic drivers of earth surface processes, including detection and quantification techniques
Includes the latest research and suggestions for adapted and sustainable mitigation and management strategies
Includes worked examples and case studies of anthropogenic and climate influences on Earth surface processes