This will be the first book of its kind focusing on the natural landscapes and landforms of Austria.

The book complements the rich travel literature on Austria’s tourism sites focusing mainly on cultural heritage.

Colour imagery together with easy-to-read texts will help to foster stewardship of landscapes and to understand the evolution of landforms and landscapes

Christine Embleton-Hamann is a retired professor in the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna. Her main interest is in alpine environments. Within this field, she focusses on human–environment interactions with research topics like human impact on geomorphic processes, assessment of the scenic quality of landscapes, and geomorphological hazards. A second set of interest concerns the communication of geomorphological knowledge to a broader audience, in the pursuit of which objective she has written a well-received textbook on geomorphology. She is a former president of the Austrian Research Association on Geomorphology and served on the Executive Boards of the IAG and several IAG and IGU Working Groups.