Publisher's Synopsis
The book provides a brief description of Egypt's geography and its general characteristics such as location, topography, land-water interactions, Land use and land cover changes, population characteristics, and urbanization. These factors are proven to have a significant influence on climate. The geographic and climatic characteristics of Egypt are important to give insights into the links between the physical and human environment and climate behaviour.GIS plays a vital role in this book where it works with several layers of such thematic data and it can answer questions by comparing the different layers and also by overlaying them to show the spatial variability in the affecting factors and its change over the different periods to give you a clear picture about the Egyptian lands.
