Böcker av Andrew Goudie

This book considers the meaning of the term, considers the value and characteristics of Google Earth, and discusses the main driving forces of landscape change. Google Earth provides a means whereby one can identify changes in the landscapes of Earth over recent decades. This has been a time of great human activity, and landscapes have been transformed as a result of such factors as land use and land-cover change, climate change, the intensive harnessing of new energy sources, population pressures, and globalization. Many geologists now believe that the whole Earth System is being changed and that there is thus a need to introduce the concept of the Anthropocene. It then looks at specific landscape types, including rivers, coasts, lakes, deserts, tundra, and glaciers.

The Jurassic Coast in the United Kingdom is a World Heritage Site and one of the most important geological and geomorphological locations on earth. Geological Pioneers of the Jurassic Coast examines the lives and achievements of over forty pioneering researchers of the area. Progressing chronologically, the book tells the stories of fossil collectors, geological mappers, stratigraphers, and paleontologists from the seventeenth century to today.