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1 online resource (787 pages) |
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Print version record. |
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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-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. |
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FrontCover; Snow and Ice-RelatedHazards, Risks, and Disasters; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; EditorialForeword; Foreword by Charles Harris; Preface; Chapter 1 -- Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters: A General Framework; 1.2 COSTS AND BENEFITS: LIVING WITH SNOW AND ICE; 1.3 SMALL AND LARGE, FAST AND SLOW, LOCAL TO GLOBAL: DEALING WITH CONSTRAINTS; REFERENCES; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.7 SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES; 6.1 GLACIAL PROCESSES AND LANDSCAPES; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; 6.4 CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK; 7.4 PERMAFROST TYPES, EXTENT, AND DISTRIBUTION. |
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9.1 INTRODUCTION9.6 CASE STUDY "EVALUATION OF AVALANCHE MITIGATION MEASURES FOR JUNEAU, ALASKA"; 16.6 GLACIAL DEBRIS FLOWS I; NON-OUTBURST RELATED; 10.1 INTRODUCTION; 10.9 PERMAFROST AND THE CARBON CYCLE IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE; 11.4 TUNNEL VALLEYS WITHIN THE NORTH GERMAN PLAIN AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO THE LONG-TERM SAFETY OF NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORIES; 12.1 INTRODUCTION; 12.4 AVALANCHE FLOW; 13.1 INTRODUCTION; 13.4 SURGES OF GLACIAR GRANDE DEL NEVADO DEL PLOMO, CENTRAL ANDES, ARGENTINA, AND RELATED DISASTERS/HAZARDS. |
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13.6 SURGING GLACIERS AND THE TRANS ALASKA PIPELINE SYSTEM: POTENTIAL HAZARDS AND MONITORING14.1 INTRODUCTION; 14.4 DOWNSTREAM FLOOD BEHAVIOR; 15.1 INTRODUCTION; 15.4 CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK; 16.4 MASS FLOWS INVOLVING MAINLY FRAGMENTED ROCK (ROCK AVALANCHES); 11.1 INTRODUCTION; 17.1 INTRODUCTION; 18.6 FRESHWATER ICE; REFERENCES; 20.1 CONTEMPORARY SEA-LEVEL RISE IN A GEOLOGIC PERSPECTIVE; Index. |
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Glaciology.
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Cryosphere.
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Glaciologie.
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Cryosphère.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology.
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Cryosphere
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Glaciology
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Haeberli, Wilfried.
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Whiteman, Colin.
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Shroder, John F.
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Print version: Haeberli, Wilfried. Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters. Burlington : Elsevier Science, ©2014 9780123948496 |
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9780123964731 (electronic bk.) |
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0123964733 (electronic bk.) |
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9780123948496 |
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AU@ 000054998661 |
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DEBSZ 434138606 |
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GBVCP 799964778 |
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