Description:
Changing Geography will introduce your A-level students to concepts and ideas from current research in higher education, giving them fresh themes for their project work and enabling more students to reach the highest grades. Contemporary case studies, suggestions for imaginative projects, pacy design and full colour illustrations will guarantee their appeal to the 16-19 age group.
Covering areas that tend to be excluded from conventional 16-19 texts, the titles in this new series will also bridge the gap between school and university geography and prepare your students for the type of work they will encounter during their university studies. Changing Geography aims to take post-16 geography right into the mainstream of geographical thinking.
The study of glaciers is increasingly important in the context of environmental change, and recent developments in the subjec have seriously challenged traditional approaches. Glaciers and glacial landscapes not only reviews our basic understanding of glaciers within the global system, but also identifies ways in which that understanding is changing in response to new scientific research.
At the GA Conference in Derby last week I bought a copy of your excellent book - the best book for my AS / A2 teaching I've so far seen in 17 years of teaching 'A' level Physical Geography... A colleague of mine, on reading your book popped into my classroom yesterday and said: "now I finally understand surges... Alan Parkinson, www.geographypages.co.uk
CONTENTS
Editors’ preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Glaciers and Glaciation
Chapter 2: Glaciers and the Global system
Chapter 3: The structure and anatomy of glaciers
Chapter 4: Glacier motion and fluctuations
Chapter 5: Glaciers altering landscape
Chapter 6: Glaciers and human activity
Chapter 7: Conclusion
References and further reading
