Examines the effects of climate on physical, biological and cultural environments. Specialist contributors examine the impacts of changing climates on the functioning and development of physical biological environments such as glaciers.

Weather and climate effects day-to-day activities and lifestyles from the clothes we wear to the buildings we design, and the food and energy we produce. This book focuses on the relationship between climate and a wide range of human activities and responses.

'A much needed and useful undergraduate text.' - International Journal of Climatology

The book is lively, readable, authoritative and very user-friendly - Applied Geography

' Applied Climatology at £18.99 (paperback) should be adopted as a course textbook with the hardback (£60.00) finding several places on library shelves.' - Progress in Physical Geography, Vol 23, No.1 1999

'At all times in the book illustrative examples are drawn from recent research and the latest literature. The book is lively, readable, authoritative and very user-friendly. - Applied Climatology