Glacier Science and Environmental Change is an authoritative
and comprehensive reference work on contemporary issues in
glaciology. It explores the interface between glacier science and
environmental change, in the past, present, and future.
Written by the world’s foremost authorities in the subject
and researchers at the scientific frontier where conventional
wisdom of approach comes face to face with unsolved problems, this
book provides:
* state-of-the-art reviews of the key topics in glaciology and
related disciplines in environmental change
* cutting-edge case studies of the latest research
* an interdisciplinary synthesis of the issues that draw together
the research efforts of glaciologists and scientists from other
areas such as geologists, hydrologists, and climatologists
* color-plate section (with selected extra figures provided in
color at www.blackwellpublishing.com/knight).
The topics in this book have been carefully chosen to reflect
current priorities in research, the interdisciplinary nature of the
subject, and the developing relationship between glaciology and
studies of environmental change.
Glacier Science and Environmental Change is essential
reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate research
students, and professional researchers in glaciology, geology,
geography, geophysics, climatology, and related disciplines.
Despre autor
Dr Peter Knight was brought up in Birmingham, England, and educated in geography and glaciology at the Universities of Oxford and Aberdeen. He teaches physical geography at Keele University, and carries out research in glaciology and glacial geomorphology both in the laboratory and at field sites in Iceland, Greenland, and the UK.
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