In the last two decades concern with global environmental change has brought the role of anthropogeomorphology into sharper focus. Global warming, if it occurs, will have important implications for many geomorphological processes and phenomena
as a result of the direct effects of warming, as a consequence of other related climatic changes (e.g. précipitation change) and as a result of climatically moderated changes in major geomorphologically significant variables (e.g. vegetation cover
). Geomorphologists need, inter alia, to establish long-term study sites that will generate base-line data, to monitor the location and rate of change using sequential cartographic and remote sensing materials, to determine information on natural background levels
Action anthropique ; Changement global ; Crue ; Dynamique de versant ; Erosion des sols ; Fluviatile ; Forêt tropicale ; Géochimie ; Géomorphologie ; Précipitation ; Type de temps ; Zone intertropicale
Flood ; Fluvial processes ; Geochemistry ; Geomorphology ; Global change ; Human impact ; Precipitation ; Slope dynamics ; Soil erosion ; Tropical rain forest ; Tropical zone ; Weather type
and sedimentation in the rainforest, denudation efficiency in the humid tropics, the Quaternary evolution and changes, and the applied side of tropical geomorphology.
. anticipate substantial change and progress over the next two decades, but they do not predict revolutionary advances in theoretical understanding of coastal geomorphic systems. The AA. offer predictions for specific coastal systems delineated according