Snow and ice-related hazards, risks, and disasters

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Snow and ice-related hazards, risks, and disasters

volume editors, Wilfried Haeberli, Colin Whiteman

(Hazards and disasters series / series editor John F. Shroder)

Elsevier, c2015

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB17705453
  • ISBN
    • 9780123948496
  • 出版国コード
    ne
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Amsterdam ; Tokyo
  • ページ数/冊数
    xxiv, 762 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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