Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

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.

List of contents

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.

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Product details

• Authors: Unknown Aehlert, Wilfried Haeberli & Colin Whiteman
• Assisted by: Wilfried Haeberli (Editor), Colin Whiteman (Editor), Colin A. Whiteman (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2014
• EAN: 9780123948496
• ISBN: 978-0-12-394849-6
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 39 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 1450 g
• Illustrations: 150 illustrations (150 in full color)
• Series: Academic Press
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; NATURE / Natural Disasters, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, Meteorology & climatology, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Natural disasters, Geology & The Lithosphere