Overview
- Focuses on the natural landscapes and landforms of Austria
- Complements the rich travel literature on Austria’s tourism sites
- Fosters stewardship of landscapes and understands the evolution of landforms
Part of the book series: World Geomorphological Landscapes (WGLC)
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to the Physical Geography of Austria
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Front Matter
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Geomorphic Hotspots of High Scenic Quality and/or High Scientific Interest
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About this book
Part 1 sets the context of the Austrian landscape as a whole.
Part 2 is the core of the volume and comprises a careful selection of the most outstanding landscapes in Austria. Each of the chapters results from detailed research conducted by an author over many years. Austria’s landscapes are especially attractive because of the great variety of topographic slopes, geologic foundations and the special landscape legacy from the Quaternary period. Glacial and Karst landscapes dominate, but there are superb examples of granite weathering landscapes and geologically recent volcanism.
The book is lavishly illustrated with about 350 color images and issecurely based on scientific scholarship.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Christine Embleton-Hamann is a retired professor in the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna. Her main interest is in alpine environments. Within this field, she focusses on human–environment interactions with research topics like human impact on geomorphic processes, assessment of the scenic quality of landscapes, and geomorphological hazards. A second set of interest concerns the communication of geomorphological knowledge to a broader audience, in the pursuit of which objective she has written a well-received textbook on geomorphology. She is a former president of the Austrian Research Association on Geomorphology and served on the Executive Boards of the IAG and several IAG and IGU Working Groups.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Landscapes and Landforms of Austria
Editors: Christine Embleton-Hamann
Series Title: World Geomorphological Landscapes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92815-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92813-1Published: 21 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92815-5Published: 20 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2213-2090
Series E-ISSN: 2213-2104
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 496
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 353 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geomorphology, Physical Geography, Landscape Ecology