TY  - BOOK
AU  - Veblen,Thomas T.
AU  - Young,Kenneth R.
AU  - Orme,A.R.
TI  - The physical geography of South America
T2  - Oxford regional environments
SN  - 9780198031840
AV  - F2211.5 .P49 2007eb
U1  - 918.02 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Physical geography
KW  - South America
KW  - Géographie physique
KW  - Amérique du Sud
KW  - TRAVEL
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Geography
KW  - Physische Geografie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Géographie
KW  - Südamerika
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword; Contents; Contributors; I. Systematic Framework; II. Regional Environments; III. Nature in the Human Context; Index; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - The Physical Geography of South America, the eighth volume in the Oxford Regional Environments series, presents an enduring statement on the physical and biogeographic conditions of this remarkable continent and their relationships to human activity. It fills a void in recent environmental literature by assembling a team of specialists from within and beyond South America in order to provide an integrated, cross-disciplinary body of knowledge about this mostly tropical continent, together with its high mountains and temperate southern cone. The authors systematically cover the main components of the South American environment - tectonism, climate, glaciation, natural landscape changes, rivers, vegetation, animals, and soils. The book then presents more specific treatments of regions with special attributes from the tropical forests of the Amazon basin to the Atacama Desert and Patagonian steppe, and from the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific coasts to the high Andes. Additionally, the continents environments are given a human face by evaluating the roles played by people over time, from pre-European and European colonial impacts to the effects of modern agriculture and urbanization, and from interactions with El Nino events to prognoses for the future environments of the continent
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