Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
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2017
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-810065-3 (ISBN)
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-810065-3 (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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.11.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Approx. 150 illustrations (150 in full color); Illustrations, unspecified |
| Verlagsort | San Diego |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie | |
| Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-12-810065-6 / 0128100656 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-12-810065-3 / 9780128100653 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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