Snow and ice-related hazards, risks and disasters/
Snow and ice-related hazards, risks and disasters/
edited by Wilfried Haeberli, Colin Whiteman.
- 1st ed.
- Amsterdam: Academic, 2014.
- xxiv, 762 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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
9780123948496
Glaciology
Cryosphere
551.31 / HAE/S
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
9780123948496
Glaciology
Cryosphere
551.31 / HAE/S