Transient Landscapes: Insights on a Changing Planet (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781607323686)

Landscape--the unique combination of landforms, plants, animals, and weather that compose any natural place--is inherently transient. Each essay in Transient Landscapes introduces this idea of a constantly metamorphosing global landscape, revealing how to see the ubiquity of landscape transience, both that which results through Earth's natural environmental and climatological processes and that which comes from human intervention.

The essays are grouped by type of environmental change: long-term, large-scale transformation driven by geologic forces such as tectonic uplift and volcanism; natural variability at shorter time scales, such as seasonal flooding; and modifications resulting from human activities, such as timber harvest, land drainage, and pollution. Each essay is set in a unique geographic location--including such diverse places as New Zealand, Northern California, Costa Rica, and the Scottish Highlands--and is largely drawn from Wohl's personal experience researching in the field.

A combination of travel writing, nature writing, and science writing, Transient Landscapes is a beautiful and thoughtful journey through the natural world.

Author: Ellen E. Wohl
ISBN-10: 1607323680
ISBN-13: 9781607323686
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2015
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2016