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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-scie...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Haeberli, Wilfried, Whiteman, Colin, Shroder, John F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier Science, [2015]
Series:Hazards and disasters series (Elsevier)
Subjects:
Snow.
Glaciers.
Ice.
Natural disasters > Risk assessment.
Glaciology.
Cryosphere.
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography.
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 762 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780123964731
0123964733