This is the first textbook to consider all aspects of the cryosphere system in the context of global environmental change driven by human activity and climate.
- Considers all six aspects of the cryosphere – ice sheets, glacier ice, permafrost, river and lake ice, sea ice and snow – in the context of global environmental change driven by human activity and climate.
- Describes a new concept of cryosphere transience and landscape transition which links climate, hydrology...
Table of Content
Preface.
1. The Evidence for Cryospheric Change.
2. The Monitoring of Cryospheric Change.
3. Processes of Cryospheric Change.
4. Patterns of the Contempor...
About the author
Professor Slaymaker’s research has four foci: mountain hydrogeomorphology, land use impacts, sustainable development and global environmental change. From 1994-2002...
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Language English ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9781444308969 ● File size 55.7 MB ● Publisher John Wiley & Sons ● Country GB ● Published 2009 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2388409 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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