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Second edition

Chapter 1 - Snow and ice-related hazards, risks, and disasters: Facing challenges of rapid change and long-term commitments / Wilfried Haeberli and Colin Whiteman. - Chapter 10 - Permafrost degradation / Dmitry Streletskiy. - Chapter 11 - Radioactive waste under conditions of future ice ages / Urs H. Fischer, Anke Bebiolka, ... Axel Weitkamp. - Chapter 12 - Snow avalanches / Jürg Schweizer, Perry Bartelt and Alec van Herwijnen. - Chapter 13 - Glacier surges / Martin Truffer, Andreas Kääb, ... Alexandre W. Lai. - Chapter 14 - Glacier-related outburst floods / John J. Clague and Jim E. O’Connor. - Chapter 15 - Ice loss from glaciers and permafrost and related slope instability in high-mountain regions / Philip Deline, Stephan Gruber, ... Samuel Weber. - Chapter 16 - The occurrence and mechanism of catastrophic mass flows in the mountain cryosphere / Stephen G. Evans, Keith B. Delaney and Nahyan M. Rana. - Chapter 17 - Hazards at ice-clad volcanoes: Phenomena, processes, and examples from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile / Hugo Delgado Granados, Patricia Julio Miranda, ... Jorge Cortés Ramos. - Chapter 18 - Floating ice and ice-pressure challenge to ships / Ivana Kubat, Captain David Fowler and Mohamed Sayed. - Chapter 19 - Retreat instability of tidewater glaciers and marine ice sheets / Andreas Vieli. - Chapter 2 - Physical, thermal, and mechanical properties of snow, ice, and permafrost / Lukas Arenson, William Colgan and Hans Peter Marshall. - Chapter 20 - Ice sheets, glaciers, and sea level / Ian Allison, Frank Paul, ... Matt King. - Chapter 3 - Snow and ice in the climate system / Atsumu Ohmura. - Chapter 4 - Snow and ice in the hydrosphere / Jan Seibert, Michal Jenicek, ... Daniel Viviroli. - Chapter 5 - Snow, ice, and the biosphere / Terry V. Callaghan and Margareta Johansson. - Chapter 6 - Ice and snow as land-forming agents / Darrel A. Swift, Simon Cook, ... Jeffrey Moore. - Chapter 7 - Mountains, lowlands, and coasts: The physiography of cold landscapes / Tobias Bolch and Hanne H. Christiansen. - Chapter 8 - A socio-cryospheric systems approach to glacier hazards, glacier runoff variability, and climate change / Mark Carey, Graham McDowell, ... Luis Vicuña. - Chapter 9 - Integrative risk management: The example of snow avalanches / Michael Bründl and Stefan Margreth. - 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.

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