System Theory in Geomorphology: Challenges, Epistemological Consequences and Practical Implications

by Kirsten von Elverfeldt

Book Overview

Empirical research needs a profound theory to be successful. This is the simple but, in its consequences, radical approach for this study in geomorphology. It critically analyses the current system understanding and offers a new view for a geomorphology that understands systems as being open but at the same time operationally closed, as self-organized, structure-building and potentially self-referential. Kirsten von Elverfeldt succeeds in designing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 940079522X
• ISBN13: 9789400795228
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"