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9780123948496: Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
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ISBN 10: 0123948495 ISBN 13: 9780123948496
Casa editrice: Academic Pr, 2014

Sinossi

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.

  • 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

Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

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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

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    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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    Editore
    Academic Pr
    Data di pubblicazione
    2014
    Lingua
    Inglese
    ISBN 10 
    0123948495
    ISBN 13 
    9780123948496
    Rilegatura
    Copertina rigida
    Numero edizione
    1
    Numero di pagine
    762
    Redattore
    Haeberli Wilfried, Whiteman Colin
    Contatto del produttore
    non disponibile
    Persona responsabile
    non disponibile

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    ISBN 10:  0128100656 ISBN 13:  9780128100653
    Casa editrice: Academic Pr, 2017
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