Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
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Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

  1. 784 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

About this book

Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Second Edition, provides you with the latest scientific developments in sea level rise, permafrost degradation, rock/ice avalanches, glacier surges, glacial lake outburst floods, ice shelf collapses, climate change implications, causality, impacts, preparedness and mitigation. The book takes a geo-scientific approach to the topic while also covering current thinking about directly related social scientific issues that can affect ecosystems and global economies. Special emphasis is placed on the rapidly progressing effects from global warming on the cryosphere, perspectives for the future and latest scientific advances, and technological developments. - Presents the latest research on causality, glacial surges, ice-shelf collapses, sea level rise, climate change implications, and more - Contains numerous tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations and photographs of hazardous processes - Features new insights on the implications of climate change, including increased melting, collapsing, flooding, methane emissions, and sea level rise

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Yes, you can access Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters by Wilfried Haeberli,Colin Whiteman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Physical Sciences & Environmental Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9780128171301
Edition
2
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Environmental Science

Table of contents

  1. Title of Book
  2. Cover image
  3. Title page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Copyright
  6. Contributors
  7. Editorial foreword
  8. Preface
  9. Chapter 1 Snow and ice-related hazards, risks, and disasters: Facing challenges of rapid change and long-term commitments
  10. Chapter 2 Physical, thermal, and mechanical properties of snow, ice, and permafrost
  11. Chapter 3 Snow and ice in the climate system
  12. Chapter 4 Snow and ice in the hydrosphere
  13. Chapter 5 Snow, ice, and the biosphere
  14. Chapter 6 Ice and snow as land-forming agents
  15. Chapter 7 Mountains, lowlands, and coasts: The physiography of cold landscapes
  16. Chapter 8 A socio-cryospheric systems approach to glacier hazards, glacier runoff variability, and climate change
  17. Chapter 9 Integrative risk management: The example of snow avalanches
  18. Chapter 10 Permafrost degradation
  19. Chapter 11 Radioactive waste under conditions of future ice ages
  20. Chapter 12 Snow avalanches
  21. Chapter 13 Glacier surges
  22. Chapter 14 Glacier-related outburst floods
  23. Chapter 15 Ice loss from glaciers and permafrost and related slope instability in high-mountain regions
  24. Chapter 16 The occurrence and mechanism of catastrophic mass flows in the mountain cryosphere
  25. Chapter 17 Hazards at ice-clad volcanoes: Phenomena, processes, and examples from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile
  26. Chapter 18 Floating ice and ice-pressure challenge to ships
  27. Chapter 19 Retreat instability of tidewater glaciers and marine ice sheets
  28. Chapter 20 Ice sheets, glaciers, and sea level
  29. Index