Snow and ice-related hazards, risks and disasters/ 
edited by Wilfried Haeberli, Colin Whiteman. 
 - 1st ed.  
 - Amsterdam:  Academic,  2014. 
 - xxiv, 762 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>1 Snow and ice-related hazards, risks, and disasters: a general framework <br/>2 Physical, thermal, and mechanical properties of snow, ice, and permafrost <br/>3 Snow and ice in the climate system <br/>4 Snow and ice in the hydrosphere <br/>5 Snow, ice, and the biosphere <br/>6 Ice and snow as land-forming agents <br/>7 Mountains, lowlands, and coasts: the physiography of cold landscapes <br/>8 Integrated approaches to adaptation and disaster risk reduction in dynamic socio-cryospheric systems <br/>9 Integrative risk management: the example of snow avalanches <br/>10 Permafrost degradation <br/>11 Radioactive waste under conditions of future ice ages <br/>12 Snow avalanches <br/>13 Glacier surges <br/>14 Glacier-related outburst floods <br/>15 Ice loss and slope stability in high mountain regions <br/>16 Catastrophic mass flows in the mountain glacial environment <br/>17 Hazards at ice-clad volcanoes: phenomena, processes, and examples from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile <br/>18 Floating ice and ice pressure challenge to ships <br/>19 Retreat instability of tidewater glaciers and marine ice-sheets <br/>20 Ice sheets, glaciers, and sea level 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780123948496 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Glaciology<br/>Cryosphere
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>551.31  / HAE/S