Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards
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Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards
About this book
Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards provides a valuable new insight into how climate change is able to influence, modulate and trigger geological and geomorphological phenomena, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and landslides; ultimately increasing the risk of natural hazards in a warmer world. Taken together, the chapters build a panorama of a field of research that is only now becoming recognized as important in the context of the likely impacts and implications of anthropogenic climate change. The observations, analyses and interpretations presented in the volume reinforce the idea that a changing climate does not simply involve the atmosphere and hydrosphere, but also elicits potentially hazardous responses from the solid Earth, or geosphere.
Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards is targeted particularly at academics, graduate students and professionals with an interest in environmental change and natural hazards. As such, we are hopeful that it will encourage further investigation of those mechanisms by which contemporary climate change may drive potentially hazardous geological and geomorphological activity, and of the future ramifications for society and economy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Hazardous responses of the solid Earth to a changing climate
- 2 Projected future climate changes in the context of geological and geomorphological hazards
- 3 Climate change and collapsing volcanoes: evidence from Mount Etna, Sicily
- 4 Melting ice and volcanic hazards in the twenty-first century
- 5 Multiple effects of ice load changes and associated stress change on magmatic systems
- 6 Response of faults to climate-driven changes in ice and water volumes at the surface of the Earth
- 7 Does the El-Niño – Southern Oscillation influence earthquake activity in the eastern tropical Pacific?
- 8 Submarine mass failures as tsunami sources – their climate control
- 9 High-mountain slope failures and recent and future warm extreme events
- 10 Impacts of recent and future climate change on natural hazards in the European Alps
- 11 Assessing the past and future stability of global gas hydrate reservoirs
- 12 Methane hydrate instability: a view from the Palaeogene
- Index