Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
Description
- Puts the contributions from expert oceanographers, geologists, geophysicists, environmental scientists, and climatologists selected by a world-renowned editorial board in your hands
- Presents the latest research on causality, glacial surges, ice-shelf collapses, sea level rise, climate change implications, and more
- Numerous tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations and photographs of hazardous processes will be included
- Features new insights into the implications of climate change on increased melting, collapsing, flooding, methane emissions, and sea level rise
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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.
Contributors
Ian Allison, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, Hobart, Australia
Bernardo Pulgarín Alzate, Servicio Geológico Colombiano, Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Popayán, Barrio Loma de Cartagena, Popayán, Colombia
Oleg Anisimov, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Lukas U. Arenson, BGC Engineering Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Perry Bartelt, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
Anke Bebiolka, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Stilleweg, Hannover, Germany
Tobias Bolch
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Institute for Cartography, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Jenny Brandefelt, Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB), Blekholmstorget, Stockholm, Sweden
Michael Bründl, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
Bolívar E. Cáceres Correa, Instituto Nacional de Meteorología (INAMHI), Corea, Quito, Ecuador
Terry V. Callaghan
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Lilla Frescativägen, Stockholm, Sweden
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Department of Botany, National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Siberia, Russia
Mark Carey, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, USA
Hanne H. Christiansen
Arctic Geology Department, The University Centre in Svalbard, UNIS, Longyearbyen, Norway
Center for Permafrost, CENPERM; Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
John J. Clague, Centre for Natural Hazard Research, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B C, Canada
William Colgan, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark
Simon Cook, School of Science and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
Patty A. Craw Burns, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mining, Land & Water, Lands Section, Fairbanks, AK, USA
Reynald Delaloye, Department of Geosciences, Geography, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Keith B. Delaney, Natural Disaster Systems, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Philip Deline, EDYTEM Lab, Université de Savoie, CNRS, Le Bourget-du-Lac Cedex, France
Lydia Espizua, Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA), Mendoza, Argentina
Stephen G. Evans, Natural Disaster Systems, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Tracy Ewen, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Urs H. Fischer, Nationale Genossenschaft für die Lagerung radioactiver Abfälle (Nagra), Wettingen, Switzerland
Luzia Fischer, Norwegian Geological Survey, Trondheim, Norway
Sven Follin, SF GeoLogic AB, Täby, Sweden
Captain David Fowler, Retired Canadian Coast Guard Captain, McDougall, ON, Canada
Isabelle Gärtner-Roer, Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Marten Geertsema, Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations, Prince George, BC, Canada
Marco Giardino, GeoSitLab, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Torino, Italy
Hugo Delgado Granados, Departamento de Vulcanología, Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
Stephan Gruber, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Wilfried Haeberli, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
William D. Harrison, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, USA
Andreas Hasler, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Tobias Heckmann, Department of Physical Geography, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany
Sarah Hirschorn, Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), Toronto, ON, Canada
Christian Huggel, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Matthias Huss
Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Jerrilynn Jackson, Department of Geography, University of Oregon, USA
Michal Jenicek
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Mark Jensen, Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), Toronto, ON, Canada
Margareta Johansson, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Andreas Kääb, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway
Siegfried Keller, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Hannover, Germany
Laura Kennell, Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), Toronto, ON, Canada
Matt King, School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Martin Kirkbride, Geography, School of the Environment, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Oliver Korup, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam, Germany
Michael Krautblatter, Technische Universität München, Germany
Ivana Kubat, National Research Council of Canada, Coastal and River Engineering, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Alexandre W. Lai, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Integrity Management Department, Fairbanks, AK, USA
Florence Magnin, EDYTEM Lab, Université de Savoie, CNRS, Le Bourget-du-Lac Cedex, France
Stefan Margreth, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
Hans Peter Marshall, Department of Geosciences and Center for Geophysical Investigation of the Shallow Subsurface, Boise State University, ID, USA
Samuel McColl, Physical Geography Group, Institute of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Palmerston North, Australia
Graham McDowell, Department of Geography, McGill University, Montral, Canada
Patricia Julio Miranda, Escuela de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Frac. Talleres, México
Jeffrey Moore, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Patricia Mothes, Instituto Geofísico, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
Jens-Ove Näslund, Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB), Blekholmstorget, Stockholm, Sweden
Stefano Normani, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada
Gennady A. Nosenko, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Gerardo Carrasco Núñez, Centro de Geociencias, Campus UNAM Juriquilla, Querétaro, Qro
Jim E. O'Connor, U.S. Geological Survey, Oregon Water Science Center, Portland, Oregon,...
