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. The book 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. Special emphasis is placed on the rapidly progressing effects from global warming on the cryosphere, perspectives for the future and latest scientific advances, and technological developments.

Pericole, riscuri si dezastre legate de zapada si gheata, editia a II-a va ofera cele mai recente evolutii stiintifice in ceea ce priveste cresterea nivelului marii, degradarea permafrostului, avalansele de stanca / gheata, cresterile ghetarilor, inundatiile de izbucnire a lacurilor glaciare, prabusirile platourilor de gheata, implicatiile schimbarilor climatice, cauzalitate, impacturi, pregatire si atenuare. Cartea adopta o abordare geo-stiintifica a subiectului, acoperind in acelasi timp gandirea actuala cu privire la problemele stiintifice sociale legate direct, care pot afecta ecosistemele si economiile globale.