This highly respected and best-selling textbook provides an accessible, engaging and comprehensive introduction to the major topics within physical geography. It focuses on understanding the inter-linkages between processes, places and environments and is comprehensively illustrated to demonstrate how the physical environment works.Now in its third edition, the book has been thoroughly updated throughout to contain the latest research, and includes entirely new chapters on weathering, aquatic ecosystems and the Holocene. The text is suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate study in the field of physical geography. Main features:Each chapter is written by a leading specialist in the field to provide informative, expert and practical coverage. A range of in-text features aid independent study including case studies, reflective questions, highlighted glossary terms and annotated further reading. Boxed features, including Techniques, Hazards, Environmental Change and New Directions help apply knowledge to the real world of physical geography. An impressively wide range of examples from around the world illustrates the physical environment with truly global scope.  An Introduction to Physical Geography and the Environment is accompanied by a rich and extensive range of electronic support resources including updated weblinks relevant for each chapter, multiple choice questions, fieldwork exercises, interactive models and video clips.Joseph Holden is Professor of Physical Geography and Director of Research at the School of Geography, University of Leeds. (Pearson)