Climate Forcing Of Geological Hazards Bill Mcguire Mark A Maslin by Bill Mcguire, Mark A. Maslin 9780470658659, 9781118482698, 0470658657, 1118482697 instant download after payment.

Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards provides a valuable new insight into how climate change is able to influence, modulate and trigger geological and geomorphological phenomena, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and landslides; ultimately increasing the risk of natural hazards in a warmer world. Taken together, the chapters build a panorama of a field of research that is only now becoming recognized as important in the context of the likely impacts and implications of anthropogenic climate change. The observations, analyses and interpretations presented in the volume reinforce the idea that a changing climate does not simply involve the atmosphere and hydrosphere, but also elicits potentially hazardous responses from the solid Earth, or geosphere.

Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards is targeted particularly at academics, graduate students and professionals with an interest in environmental change and natural hazards. As such, we are hopeful that it will encourage further investigation of those mechanisms by which contemporary climate change may drive potentially hazardous geological and geomorphological activity, and of the future ramifications for society and economy.

Content:
Chapter 1 Hazardous Responses of the Solid Earth to a Changing Climate (pages 1–33): Bill McGuire
Chapter 2 Projected Future Climate Changes in the Context of Geological and Geomorphological Hazards (pages 34–55): Felicity Liggins, Richard A. Betts and Bill McGuire
Chapter 3 Climate Change and Collapsing Volcanoes: Evidence from Mount Etna, Sicily (pages 56–77): Kim Deeming, Bill McGuire and Paul Harrop
Chapter 4 Melting Ice and Volcanic Hazards in the Twenty?First Century (pages 78–107): Hugh Tuffen
Chapter 5 Multiple Effects of Ice Load Changes and Associated Stress Change on Magmatic Systems (pages 108–123): Freysteinn Sigmundsson, Fabien Albino, Peter Schmidt, Bjorn Lund, Virginie Pinel, Andrew Hooper and Carolina Pagli
Chapter 6 Response of Faults to Climate?Driven Changes in Ice and Water Volumes at the Surface of the Earth (pages 124–142): Andrea Hampel, Ralf Hetzel and Georgios Maniatis
Chapter 7 Does the El?Nino – Southern Oscillation Influence Earthquake Activity in the Eastern Tropical Pacific? (pages 143–165): Serge Guillas, Simon Day and Bill McGuire
Chapter 8 Submarine Mass Failures as Tsunami Sources – their Climate Control (pages 166–194): David R. Tappin
Chapter 9 High?Mountain Slope Failures and Recent and Future Warm Extreme Events (pages 195–222): Christian Huggel, Nadine Salzmann and Simon Allen
Chapter 10 Impacts of Recent and Future Climate Change on Natural Hazards in the European Alps (pages 223–249): Jasper Knight, Margreth Keiler and Stephan Harrison
Chapter 11 Assessing the Past and Future Stability of Global Gas Hydrate Reservoirs (pages 250–277): Mark Maslin, Matthew Owen, Richard A. Betts, Simon Day, Tom Dunkley Jones and Andrew Ridgwell
Chapter 12 Methane Hydrate Instability: A View from the Palaeogene (pages 278–304): Tom Dunkley Jones, Ruza F. Ivanovic, Andrew Ridgwell, Daniel J. Lunt, Mark A. Maslin, Paul J. Valdes and Rachel Flecker