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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Haeberli, Wilfried, Whiteman, Colin, Shroder, John F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier Science, �2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (787 pages)
ISBN:9780123964731
0123964733