Product Description

Due to an awareness of peatlands as a diminishing resource, peatland conservation and rehabilitation has become an important study area. Peatlands and Environmental Change offers a new approach by considering peatlands as a whole ecosystem, and thereby provides a better understanding of the importance and the consequences of the functioning of peatlands.

Contents include:






∗ Peat and peatlands
∗ Peat landforms and structure
∗ Peatland hydrology and ecology
∗ Origins and pest initiation
∗ Peat accumulation
∗ The peatland archive: palaeoenvironmental evidence
∗ Autogenic change
∗ Allogenic change
∗ Peatland – environmental feedbacks
∗ Values, exploitation and human impacts
∗ Conservation management and restoration

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #440194 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

Review
"...an ideal introduction to peatlands..." (Journal of Soils & Sediments, Vol.2, No.3, 2002)

"...a welcome and timely addition..." (Land Degradation and Development, November/December 2002)

"...a comprehensive summary of peatland science...it will broaden specialists′ and students′ knowledge..." (International Journal of Environment Studies, Vol.60, No.2, 2003)

"…certainly a book that should be on the shelves of all peatland researchers…" (Environmental Conservation, Vol.30, No.1, 2003)

….”Overall, this is an outstanding book.  Peatlands and Environmental Change is very highly recommended both for personal and library use, and should be on a range of reading lists….”   (The Holocene, July 2003)

 ..."All in all this is a very good and well produced book .... and will become a widely cited reference text ..." (Earth Surface Processes & Landforms, Spetember 2003)

Review
"...an ideal introduction to peatlands..." (Journal of Soils & Sediments, Vol.2, No.3, 2002)

"...a welcome and timely addition..." (Land Degradation and Development, November/December 2002)

"...a comprehensive summary of peatland science...it will broaden specialists′ and students′ knowledge..." (International Journal of Environment Studies, Vol.60, No.2, 2003)

"…certainly a book that should be on the shelves of all peatland researchers…" (Environmental Conservation, Vol.30, No.1, 2003)

….”Overall, this is an outstanding book.  Peatlands and Environmental Change is very highly recommended both for personal and library use, and should be on a range of reading lists….”   (The Holocene, July 2003)

..."All in all this is a very good and well produced book .... and will become a widely cited reference text ..." (Earth Surface Processes & Landforms, Spetember 2003)

International Journal of Environment Studies, Vol.60, No.2, 2003
"...a comprehensive summary of peatland science...it will broaden specialists' and students' knowledge..."