The cryosphere and global environmental change
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The cryosphere and global environmental change
(Environmental systems and global change series / edited by Anthony Orme)
Blackwell Pub., 2007
- pbk
Available at 3 libraries
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  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the first textbook to consider all aspects of the cryosphere system in the context of global environmental change driven by human activity and climate.
Considers all six aspects of the cryosphere - ice sheets, glacier ice, permafrost, river and lake ice, sea ice and snow - in the context of global environmental change driven by human activity and climate.
Describes a new concept of cryosphere transience and landscape transition which links climate, hydrology, ecology and geomorphology.
Looks at the evidence, process, and patterns of cryosphere change, on local and global scales.
Provides a wealth of data to inform the current global environmental change debate.
Additional resources for this book can be found at: bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=index&bcsId=5064&itemId=140512976X
Table of Contents
Preface. 1. The Evidence for Cryospheric Change.
2. The Monitoring of Cryospheric Change.
3. Processes of Cryospheric Change.
4. Patterns of the Contemporary Cryosphere at Local to Global Scales.
5. The Evidence for Past Cryospheric Changes.
6. The Transience of the Cryosphere and Transitional Landscapes.
7. Cryospheric Change and Vulnerability at Quaternary, Holocene, and Anthropocene Timescales.
References.
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"