By Michael E. Meadows, Jiun-Chuan Lin (eds.)
This booklet bargains with the connection among geomorphology and society. This subject has had fairly scant therapy within the literature other than to a point below the label “applied geomorphology”. during this textual content the authors goal to compile conceptual concerns and case stories of the way geomorphology impacts society and, certainly, how society is in flip motivated through geomorphology. In an age during which the impact of human actions on worldwide environments has develop into so paramount that it's more and more universal to consult it geologically because the “anthropocene”, the ebook goals to mirror at the geomorphological importance of frequent and numerous sorts of human impression in a variety of environmental settings.
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Science 316(5833):1866–1869 Kraussman F, Erb K-H, Gingrich S, Heberl H, Bondeau A, Gaube V, Lauk C, Searchinger TD (2013) Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century. Proc Natl Acad Sci 110(25):10324–10329 Le Maitre DC, van Wilgen BW, Chapman RA, McKelly DH (1996) Invasive plants in the Western Cape, South Africa: modelling the consequences of a lack of management. J Appl Ecol 33:161–172 Lewin J (2013) Enlightenment and the GM floodplain. Earth Surf Process Landf 38:17–29 Lewin J, Macklin MG (2013) Marking time in geomorphology: should we try to formalise an anthropocene definition?
One need not be a political ecologist to ask this type of questions about society-geomorphology interaction, but adopting some of its ways of framing scientific issues and learning from its insights would enrich any (but not only) human geographic exploration of aggregate issues. As to the geomorphological turn, some of the studies mentioned earlier point already to crucial, but underestimated facts, such as the succinct comments on seemingly ‘natural river systems’ that more often than not result from geomorphological and human co-production over centuries.
Obviously, a critical appreciation of societal perspectives proper is needed as regards aggregate issues and their potential for relevant human geography approaches. To date, there appear to be no consistent studies in this special field, although the foregoing discussion provides clear hints at a multitude of issues that deserve to be tackled from a variety of human geographical subsdisciplines. These subdisciplines include economic geography (commodity/value chains, international trade), urban geography (urbanisation, urban metabolism), the geography of (under-)development (resource transfer from the poor to the powerful), social geography (fishermen becoming sand miners), rural geography (destruction of agricultural land), tourism geography (beach mining and tourism) and, finally, applied geography (management/regulation), to mention but a few.
