**Meet the editors**

Dr Tommaso Piacentini is a Researcher at the University "G. D'Annunzio" of Chieti Pescara, in the Department of Engineering and Geology. His research activities are carried in the Apennines chain, eastern Piedmont and Adriatic coast, focusing on the following main topics: the role of tectonics in the geomorphological evolution of Abruzzi Apennines and Piedmont area; soil erosion in

Mediterranean environment in the Abruzzi Piedmont area; past distribution of the periglacial environment in the Italian mountain chains; study of the sensitivity to drought and desertification in the Abruzzi area; geomorphological and geological mapping applied to hazard and risk analysis. Dr. Piacentini has authored several scientific papers in national and international scientific journals, several geomorphological maps and geological maps and explicatory notes Geological Survey of Italy.

Professor Enrico Miccadei is an Associated Professor of Physical geography and cartography at the University "G. D'Annunzio" of Chieti Pescara, in the Department of Engineering and Geology. Geomorphology research interest are on geomorphological and geological mapping, on the study of morphostructures and morphogenesis of the Appenine chain, periadriatic piedmont zone,

and coastal zones of the Abruzzo-Molise area and Adriatic islands, and on environmental and applied geomorphology for hazard and risk analysis. His scientific activity is testified by several publications in national and international scientific journal, concerning physical geography, structural geomorphology and environmental geology. In those sectors he has coordinated projects related to the study of radon, river and landslides geomorphology and related risks, geological-geomorphological mapping and GIS in collaboration with Geological Survey of Italy.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

W. Brian Whalley

Pavel Raška

Chapter 4 **Environmental Changes in** 

Svetislav S. Krstić

Chapter 5 **Intervention of Human Activities** 

Chapter 1 **Using Discrete Debris Accumulations** 

**to Help Interpret Upland Glaciation of the Younger Dryas in the British Isles 1** 

Chapter 2 **Biogeomorphologic Approaches to a Study of** 

Chapter 3 **Geomorphological Instability Triggered by Heavy** 

Enrico Miccadei, Tommaso Piacentini, Francesca Daverio and Rosamaria Di Michele

**Lakes Catchments as a Trigger for Rapid Eutrophication – A Prespa Lake Case Study 63** 

**on Geomorphological Evolution of Coastal Areas: Cases from Turkey 119**  Cüneyt Baykal, Ayşen Ergin and Işıkhan Güler

**Geomorphology in View of Integrated Coastal** 

**Potential Vegetation Mapping for Upper Mississippi River Bottomland Restoration 163** 

Chapter 6 **Spatial and Time Balancing Act: Coastal** 

Chapter 7 **Hydro-Geomorphic Classification and** 

and Mickey E. Heitmeyer

**Zone Management (ICZM) 141**  Gülizar Özyurt and Ayşen Ergin

Charles H. Theiling, E. Arthur Bettis

**Hillslope Processes Using Non-Destructive Methods 21** 

**Rainfall: Examples in the Abruzzi Region (Central Italy) 45** 
