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Earth Surface Systems: Complexity, Order, and Scale: Order, Complexity and Scale (Natural Environment) - Hardcover

Phillips, Jonathan D.

 
9781557869340: Earth Surface Systems: Complexity, Order, and Scale: Order, Complexity and Scale (Natural Environment)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1557869340 ISBN 13: 9781557869340
Verlag: Blackwell Publishers, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

This book provides a theory to overcome the problem of identifying the principles behind the interdependence of different aspects of nature. Climate, vegetation, geology, landforms, soils, hydrology, and other environmental factors are all linked. Many scientists agree that there must be some general principles about the way in which earth surface systems operate, and about the ways the interactions of the biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere manifest themselves. Yet there may be inherent limits on our ability to understand and isolate these interactions using traditional reductionist science.

The argument of this book is that the simultaneous presence of order and chaos reflects fundamental, common properties of earth surface processes and systems. It shows how and why this is the case, in examples ranging from evolutionary and geological time scales, to micro-scale examinations of process mechanics.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jonathan D. Phillips is Professor and Head of the Department of Geography at the College of Geosciences, Texas A & M University. He is a geographer and environmental scientist specializing in geomorphology, pedology and hydrology.

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This book provides a theory to overcome the problem of identifying the principles behind the interdependence of different aspects of nature. Climate, vegetation, geology, landforms, soils, hydrology, and other environmental factors are all linked. Many scientists agree that there must be some general principles about the way in which earth surface systems operate, and about the ways the interactions of the biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere manifest themselves. Yet there may be inherent limits on our ability to understand and isolate these interactions using traditional reductionist science.

The argument of this book is that the simultaneous presence of order and chaos reflects fundamental, common properties of earth surface processes and systems. It shows how and why this is the case, in examples ranging from evolutionary and geological time scales, to micro-scale examinations of process mechanics.

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Verlag
Blackwell Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1557869340
ISBN 13 
9781557869340
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
180
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