Snow and ice-related hazards, risks, and disasters /

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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Bibliographic Details
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

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Snow and ice-related hazards, risks, and disasters: a general framework
Chapter 2. Physical, thermal, and mechanical properties of snow, ice, and permafrost
Chapter 3. Snow and ice in the climate system
Chapter 4. Snow and ice in the hydrosphere
Chapter 5. Snow, ice, and the biosphere
Chapter 6. Ice and snow as land-forming agents
Chapter 7. Mountains, lowlands, and coasts: the physiography of cold landscapes
Chapter 8. Integrated approaches to adaptation and disaster risk reduction in dynamic socio-cryospheric systems
Chapter 9. Integrative risk management: the example of snow avalanches
Chapter 10. Permafrost degradation
Chapter 11. Radioactive waste under conditions of future ice ages
Chapter 12. Snow avalanches
Chapter 13. Glacier surges
Chapter 14. Glacier-related outburst floods
Chapter 15. Ice loss and slope stability in high-mountain regions
Chapter 16. Catastrophic mass flows in the mountain glacial enviornment
Chapter 17. Hazards at ice-clad volcanoes: phenomena, processes, and examples from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile
Chapter 18. Floating ice and ice pressure challenge to ships
Chapter 19. Retreat instability of tidewater glaciers and marine ice sheets
Chapter 20. Ice sheets, glaciers, and sea level.