Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
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Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

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Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

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Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Second Edition, provides you with the latest scientific developments in sea level rise, permafrost degradation, rock/ice avalanches, glacier surges, glacial lake outburst floods, ice shelf collapses, climate change implications, causality, impacts, preparedness and mitigation. The book takes a geo-scientific approach to the topic while also covering current thinking about directly related social scientific issues that can affect ecosystems and global economies. Special emphasis is placed on the rapidly progressing effects from global warming on the cryosphere, perspectives for the future and latest scientific advances, and technological developments.

  • Presents the latest research on causality, glacial surges, ice-shelf collapses, sea level rise, climate change implications, and more
  • Contains numerous tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations and photographs of hazardous processes
  • Features new insights on the implications of climate change, including increased melting, collapsing, flooding, methane emissions, and sea level rise

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Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2021
ISBN
9780128171301
Edition
2
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Geology & Earth Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Contributors
  6. Editorial foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1: Snow and ice-related hazards, risks, and disasters: Facing challenges of rapid change and long-term commitments
  9. Chapter 2: Physical, thermal, and mechanical properties of snow, ice, and permafrost
  10. Chapter 3: Snow and ice in the climate system
  11. Chapter 4: Snow and ice in the hydrosphere
  12. Chapter 5: Snow, ice, and the biosphere
  13. Chapter 6: Ice and snow as land-forming agents
  14. Chapter 7: Mountains, lowlands, and coasts: The physiography of cold landscapes
  15. Chapter 8: A socio-cryospheric systems approach to glacier hazards, glacier runoff variability, and climate change
  16. Chapter 9: Integrative risk management: The example of snow avalanches
  17. Chapter 10: Permafrost degradation
  18. Chapter 11: Radioactive waste under conditions of future ice ages
  19. Chapter 12: Snow avalanches
  20. Chapter 13: Glacier surges
  21. Chapter 14: Glacier-related outburst floods
  22. Chapter 15: Ice loss from glaciers and permafrost and related slope instability in high-mountain regions
  23. Chapter 16: The occurrence and mechanism of catastrophic mass flows in the mountain cryosphere
  24. Chapter 17: Hazards at ice-clad volcanoes: Phenomena, processes, and examples from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile
  25. Chapter 18: Floating ice and ice-pressure challenge to ships
  26. Chapter 19: Retreat instability of tidewater glaciers and marine ice sheets
  27. Chapter 20: Ice sheets, glaciers, and sea level
  28. Index