{"product_id":"landscape-evolution-jonathan-d-phillips-9780128217252","title":"Landscape Evolution: Landforms, Ecosystems, and Soils","description":"\u003ci\u003eLandscape Evolution: Landforms, Ecosystems and Soils\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan D. Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0128217251\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780128217252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Elsevier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.74d","brand":"Jonathan D. Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47420169748735,"sku":"9780128217252","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ecb5edcb-c9a2-4988-a04a-ad614f93a490.jpg?v=1761525849","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/landscape-evolution-jonathan-d-phillips-9780128217252","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}