Climate Dynamics and Landscape

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change causes major events that effect all components of the landscape as well as humans. The current scientific literature has shifted from the descriptions of the location and properties of climate around the globe common in the 19th century to attempts to produce integrated assessments of climate changes around the world and their effects on the environment. This has significant implications for humankind.

This Special Issue aims to serve as an assessment of the relationships between climate change and the environment as a whole. One of the questions to be answered are the possible effects of the 100 ka climatic cycle geologists and oceanographers have found in their studies. If correct, we are due for a major climatic shift from an interglacial warm climate to the beginning of the next Ice Age. The exact details of the change are unknown, but it would seem desirable to estimate the consequences of such a change in terms of its potential effects on the environment in which we live. We need to analyze past events to evaluate future probable scenarios. These may be positive or negative in their effects on different climates and may result from different environmental controls.

Examples of suitable topics include changes in the biota, agriculture, habitable places, changes in sea level, shorelines, growth of glaciers and areas of permafrost, hydrology, slope stability, fluvial systems, arid lands, etc., and their effects on humankind. This includes the use of statistical techniques and GIS systems, although these may be difficult to use when predicting future events. It can also include changes in the location of future populations and the works of humans such as architecture, ports, etc.

Dr. Stuart A. Harris
Guest Editor

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• climate change
• landscape
• humankind
• statistical techniques
• GIS systems
• biota
• agriculture
• habitable places
• changes in sea level, shorelines, growth of glaciers and areas of permafrost
• hydrology
• slope stability
• fluvial systems