Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

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. It 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. The 2nd edition adds a special focus on recently accelerating changes in nature and perspectives for the future. The 1st edition has been a unique accomplishment in a scientific and policy-relevant field of increasing relevance and public interest. Rapid changes in nature as well as in observation technologies and numerical modeling take place, necessitating updates in various sections of the 1st edition in order to continue with representing a primary reference in the field.Special emphasis is 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 moreNumerous tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations and?photographs of hazardous processes are includedFeatures new insights into the implications of climate change on increased melting, collapsing, flooding, methane emissions, and sea level rise INDICE: 1. Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters: A General Framework 2. Physical, Thermal, and Mechanical Properties of Snow, Ice, and Permafrost 3. Snow and Ice in the Climate System 4. Snow and Ice in the Hydrosphere 5. Snow, Ice, and the Biosphere 6. Ice and Snow as Land-Forming Agents 7. Mountains, Lowlands, and Coasts: the Physiography of Cold Landscapes 8. Integrated Approaches to Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Dynamic Socio-cryospheric Systems 9. Integrative Risk Management: The Example of Snow Avalanches 10. Permafrost Degradation 11. Radioactive Waste Under Conditions of Future Ice Ages 12. Snow Avalanches 13. Glacier Surges 14. Glacier-Related Outburst Floods 15. Ice Loss and Slope Stability in High-Mountain Regions 16. Catastrophic Mass Flows in the Mountain Glacial Environment 17. Hazards at Ice-Clad Volcanoes: Phenomena, Processes, and Examples From Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile 18. Floating Ice and Ice Pressure Challenge to Ships 19. Retreat Instability of Tidewater Glaciers and Marine Ice Sheets 20. Ice Sheets, Glaciers, and Sea Level

• ISBN: 9780128171295
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 784
• Fecha Publicación: 26/02/2021
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés