© Columbia University Press
March, 2003
Paper, 336 pages, 113 illus
ISBN: 978-0-7486-1736-4
Edinburgh University Press
$72.00
"The editors should be congratulated on the way in which they have undertaken their task, as the book is comprehensive, wide-ranging and well-organised. On the whole, it achieves its aims..... The book is an impressive volume.... indispensable." — The Holocene
"An important survey of an emerging science and as such has the potential to act as a stimulus to renewed and refocused research for years to come." — Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers