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First Draft: end-2009 (Status: 80% complete. Final chapters due)
Target group: professionals, post-graduate students, and scholars
Objectives: to provide a background to the history of the application and use of geomorphological mapping, outline the current technical "state-of-the-art" and provide examples of how to apply the geomorphological techniques for applied mapping
Authors: academics & professionals (geomorphologists, engineers, insurance agents, Environmental Impact Assessors, etc)
Distribution: to be published as part of the peer-reviewed Elsevier "Developments in Earth Surface Processes" series. Electronic PDF chapters available for purchase
Support: web-site, DVD.

Table of Contents

PROFESSIONAL HANDBOOK OF LANDFORM MAPPING
A practical guide to the applications of Geomorphological Mapping

SECTION 1 – GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING

1. Introduction

2. History of Geomorphological and Landform mapping

3. Aims and scales of Geomorphological/Landform mapping

4. Makers and Users of Geomorphological maps

5. Quantitative Risk Assessment

SECTION 2 – TECHNIQUES IN APPLIED GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING

6. Field Mapping

7. Data Sources

8. Digital Mapping

9. Error

10. Cartography: Symbolization and Output

11. Automated mapping

SECTION 3 – CASE STUDIES

12. Case studies (with examples from different morphoclimatic realms)

• Transport Engineering
• Mineral Extraction
• Hydrocarbon Extraction
• Renewable Resource Management
• Land Planning
• Soil Resources
• Landslides
• Submarine
• Ecology
• Glacial
• Military Applications
• Urban Environment

SECTION 4 – FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

12. Future developments

13. Conclusions