Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
Published on 29. October 2014
Book
Hardback
812 pages
978-0-12-394849-6 (ISBN)
Description
Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in glacier surges and melting, ice shelf collapses, paleo-climate reconstruction, sea level rise, climate change implications, causality, impacts, preparedness, and mitigation. It takes a geo-scientific approach to the topic while also covering current thinking about directly related social scientific issues that can adversely affect ecosystems and global economies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Geoscientists, including glaciologists, climatologists, oceanographers, environmental scientists, geologists, geophysicists geomorphologists, atmospheric scientists, and seismologists.
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
150 illustrations (150 in full color); Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
1428 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-394849-6 (9780123948496)
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Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
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Wilfried Haeberli | Colin Whiteman | John F. Shroder
Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
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Content
Introduction; Thermokarst; Glacier Surges; Ice-shelf Collapse; Spatial variability of rates & acceleration of ice mass loss & contribution to sea-level rise; Most likely cumulative sea-level rise by decade; Permafrost loss by decade; Decadal contributions to atmospheric change by permafrost loss; Sea ice and icebergs; Implications of Climate Change; Cryospheric changes & feedbacks to weather changes; Community responses & preparedness to cryospheric changes; Economics of cryospheric changes; Infrastructure development in light of associated coastal & other changes.