Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I The Tropical Environment
- Part II Process geomorphology in the tropics
- Part III Anthropogenic changes
- 17 Anthropogenic alteration of geomorphic processes in the tropics
- 18 Urban geomorphology in the tropics
- 19 The future with climate change
- References
- Index
- Plate section
19 - The future with climate change
from Part III - Anthropogenic changes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I The Tropical Environment
- Part II Process geomorphology in the tropics
- Part III Anthropogenic changes
- 17 Anthropogenic alteration of geomorphic processes in the tropics
- 18 Urban geomorphology in the tropics
- 19 The future with climate change
- References
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
The future ain’t what it used to be.
attributed to Yogi Berra, New York YankeesClimate change and the future
We did not experience any significant climate change over the last several thousand years. This allows us to extrapolate the present processes and rates over a length of time and assume that we can statistically stretch any time-based record, such as river discharge, if need be. We therefore are able to compute the size of 50-year floods and other useful measures.
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- Tropical Geomorphology , pp. 342 - 348Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011