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