Abstract This chapter surveys the history of geomorphology and Earth system science from 1965 to 2000. With roots in Enlightenment thought Hutton, Somerville, Humboldt Darwin, we see a preoccupation with holistic form develop through reductionist, mechanistic ideas nineteenth twentieth century be reawoken 1960s 1970s environmental movements space age, culminating major research programmes set b...

One of the main challenges of strategic management is implementing the strategies. Designing the strategy map in Balanced Scorecard framework to determine the causality between strategic objectives is one of the most important issues in implementing the strategies. In designing the strategy map with intuition and judgment, the link between strategic objectives is not clear and it is not obvious...

We apply a deep learning model to segment and identify rock characteristics based on Structure-from-Motion orthomap digital elevation of rocky fault scarp in the Volcanic Tablelands, Eastern California, USA. By post-processing results, we build semantic map analyse trait distributions. The resulting contains nearly 230 000 rocks with effective diameters ranging from 2 250 cm. Rock distributions...

Species check-lists are helpful to establish Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and protect local richness, endemicity, rarity, and biodiversity in general. However, such exhaustive taxonomic lists (i.e., true surrogate of biodiversity) require extensive and expensive censuses, and the use of estimator surrogates (e.g., habitats) is an appealing alternative. In truth, surrogate effectiveness appears...