Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

Buch | Hardcover

812 Seiten

2014
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-394849-6 (ISBN)

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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.

jshroder@mail.unomaha.edu

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.

Zusatzinfo	150 illustrations (150 in full color); Illustrations
Verlagsort	San Diego
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	1450 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10	0-12-394849-5 / 0123948495
ISBN-13	978-0-12-394849-6 / 9780123948496
Zustand	Neuware