Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

Buch | Softcover

812 Seiten

2017
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-810065-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.11.2017
• 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
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• ISBN-10: 0-12-810065-6 / 0128100656
• ISBN-13: 978-0-12-810065-3 / 9780128100653
• Zustand: Neuware