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9780123948496: Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters (Hazards and Disasters)
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ISBN 10: 0123948495 ISBN 13: 9780123948496
Editorial: Academic Press Inc, 2014

Sinopsis

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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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

    Titles in the Hazards and Disasters series:

    Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

    Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

    Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

    Earthquake Hazard, Risk, and Disasters

    Coastal and Marine Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

    Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

    Wildfire Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

    Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

    Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society

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    Editorial
    Academic Press Inc
    Año de publicación
    2014
    Idioma
    Inglés
    ISBN 10 
    0123948495
    ISBN 13 
    9780123948496
    Encuadernación
    Tapa dura
    Número de páginas
    812
    Editor
    Haeberli Wilfried, Whiteman Colin
    Contacto del fabricante
    no disponible
    Persona responsable
    Yeepin GmbH
    492000000000
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    Alleestr.11
    Kaiserslautern
    Rheinland-Pfalz
    67655
    Alemania

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