Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
Language: English
Published by Academic Press, 2014
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- Title
- Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
- Author
- Aehlert, Unknown
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0123948495
- ISBN 13
- 9780123948496
- Item weight
- 3.15 pounds
- 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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From the Back Cover
Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks and Disasters
Edited by Wilfried Haeberli and Colin Whiteman
Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific understanding of glacier, ice sheet and sea ice melting, permafrost degradation and slope instability, glacier lake outburst floods and avalanches and their diverse impacts including sea-level rise. While placed in a geo-scientific context, the topic also covers current thinking about directly-related socio-economic issues, adaptation and mitigation, from local to global scales.
KEY FEATURES
- Puts the contributions from expert glaciologists, geoscientists, volcanologists, environmental scientists, climatologists and historians, selected by a world-renowned editorial board, in your hands
- Presents the latest research on the causes and impacts of snow and ice-related hazards, the implications of climate-change, and more
- Includes numerous tables, maps, diagrams and photographs exemplifying and illustrating cryogenic hazardous processes
- Features new insights into the implications of climate change for increased ice and snow melting, ice shelf collapsing, methane emissions, sea level rise and radioactive waste disposal
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