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Landscape Evolution: Landforms, Ecosystems and Soils asks us to think holistically, to look for the interactions between the Earth’s component surface systems, to consider how universal laws and historical and geographical contingency work together, and to ponder the implications of nonlinear dynamics in landscapes, ecosystems, and soils. Development, evolution, landforms, topography, soils, ecosystems, and hydrological systems are inextricably intertwined. While empirical studies increasingly incorporate these interactions, theories and conceptual frameworks addressing landforms, soils, and ecosystems are pursued largely independently. This is partly due to different academic disciplines, traditions, and lexicons involved, and partly due to the disparate time scales sometimes encountered. Landscape Evolution explicitly synthesizes and integrates these theories and threads of inquiry, arguing that all are guided by a general principle of efficiency selection. A key theme is that evolutionary trends are probabilistic, emergent outcomes of efficiency selection rather than purported goal functions. This interdisciplinary reference will be useful for academic and research scientists across the Earth sciences. Serves as a primary theoretical resource on landscape evolution, Earth surface system development, and environmental responses to climate and land use changeIncorporates key ideas on geomorphic, soil, hydrologic, and ecosystem evolution and responses in a single bookIncludes case studies to provide real-world examples of evolving landscapes

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Book category Books in English Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning Earth sciences Geology & the lithosphere

• Full title: Landscape Evolution
• Subtitle: Landforms, Ecosystems, and Soils
• Author: Jonathan Phillips
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356
• EAN: 9780128217252
• ID: 33405775
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
• Weight: 700 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 191 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. May 2021

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