Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards (eBook)

Bill McGuire is Professor of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at University College London. In 2005 he was a member of the UK Government's Natural Hazards Working Group, established in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami, and in 2010 was part of the Government Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, set up to address the ash problem associated with the Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull eruption. He is a contributing author of the 2012 IPCC report on climate change and extreme events. Mark Maslin is Professor of Palaeoclimatology and Climate Change at University College London. He is a leading scientist with particular expertise in past and future global and regional climatic change and has published over 120 papers in journals such as Science, Nature, and Geology. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Scholar and currently holds a Royal Society Industrial Fellowship.

List of Contributors

Foreword

Bill McGuire and Mark Maslin

Chapter 1: Hazardous responses of the solid Earth to a changing
climate

Bill McGuire

Chapter 2: Future climate changes in the context of geological
and geomorphological hazards

Felicity Liggins, Richard Betts and Bill McGuire

Chapter 3: Climate change and collapsing volcanoes: evidence
from Mount Etna, Sicily

Kim Deeming, Bill McGuire and Paul Harrop

Chapter 4: Melting ice and volcanic hazards in the twenty-first
century

Hugh Tuffen

Chapter 5: Multiple effects of ice load changes and associated
stress change on magmatic systems

Freysteinn Sigmundsson and others

Chapter 6: Response of faults to climate-driven changes in ice
and water volumes at the surface of the Earth

Andrea Hampel, Ralf Hetzel and Georgios Maniatis

Chapter 7: Does the El-Niño - Southern Oscillation
and influence earthquake activity in the eastern tropical
Pacific?

Serge Guillas, Simon Day and Bill McGuire

Chapter 8: Submarine landslides and tsunamis in a changing
climate

Dave Tappin

Chapter 9: Heat waves and slope stability in high mountain
terrain

Christian Huggel and others

Chapter 10: Impacts of recent and future climate change on
natural hazards in the European Alps

Jasper Knight, Margreth Keiler and Stephan Harrison

Chapter 11: Assessing the past and future stability of global
gas hydrate reservoirs

Mark Maslin, Matthew Owen, Richard Betts, Simon Day, Tom Dunkley
Jones and Andrew Ridgwell

Chapter 12: Methane hydrate instability: a view from the
Palaeogene

Tom Dunkley Jones, Andrew Ridgwell, D. J. Lunt, Mark Maslin, D. N.
Schmidt and Paul Valdez

Index

"Overall, this publication should be on the bookshelf of
geologists, physical geographers, hydrologists, ecologists,
environmental scientists, politicians, and anyone interested or
involved in climate change. The wealth of concise information makes
it an excellent reference for teaching the interdisciplinary
aspects of environmental science and climate change."
(Int. J. Environment and Pollution, 1 October 2013)

"Further, this book convincingly demonstrates the need for
greater inclusion of the geoscience research community in
discussions on climate change adaptation and disaster risk
reduction planning." (Geological Journal, 25
February 2014)

"I heartily recommend this book. We all have a stake in
surviving climate change." (International Journal of
Environmental Studies, 20July 2013)

"There is useful and interesting material in the book, very much
worthy of attention..." (Geology Today, 1
May 2013)