The Cryosphere and Global Environmental Change
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Beschreibung
This is the first textbook to consider all aspects of thecryosphere system in the context of global environmental changedriven 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 byhuman activity and climate.
* Describes a new concept of cryosphere transience and landscapetransition which links climate, hydrology, ecology andgeomorphology.
* Looks at the evidence, process, and patterns of cryospherechange, on local and global scales.
* Provides a wealth of data to inform the current globalenvironmental change debate.
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Olav Slaymaker
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"An interesting book with some new and fresh perspectives fromwhich to view cryospheric change. There are seven well-illustratedchapters in total.... The book is very well written, wellillustrated and contains a valuable synthesis of cryospheric changein some of the dominant regions of the global cryosphere."(Area, March 2009)
"The major concepts, illustrated, are clear and accessibleeven for the non-specialist...the coverage and synthesis workwell and are quite informative."(Choice)
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