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Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Press / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2011-0-07024-2
• Seitenzahl: 812
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1450g
• ISBN-13: 9780123948496
• ISBN-10: 0123948495
• Artikelnr.: 41249069

Inhaltsangabe

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.