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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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Haeberli, Wilfried, Whiteman, Colin, Shroder, John F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier Science, ©2015.
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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. Puts the contributions from expert oceanographers, geologists, geophysicists, environmental scientists, and climatologists selected by a world-renowned editorial board in your hands.
Physical Description:1 online resource (787 pages)
ISBN:9780123964731
0123964733