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Earth System Processes and Disaster Management, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013
Society of Earth Scientists Series
Coordinators: Sinha Rajiv, Ravindra Rasik
Language: EnglishSubjects for Earth System Processes and Disaster Management:
Publication date: 08-2016
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 08-2012
244 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Paperback
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It focuses on natural disasters and, in particular, on climate change and its effects in Asia and understanding the significance of these developments within the context of the paleo-climatic record. The later sections of the book then focus on other types of natural disasters as well as those induced by human interaction with our environment.
Preface - 1. Introduction,- Section I Earth Systems: Cryosphere and hydrosphere.- 2. Global warming and glacier retreat - an overview.- 3. Asynchronous behaviour of glaciers of Ladakh Himalaya.- 4. Signatures and evidences of surging glaciers in Shyok valley.- 5. Antarctic climate variability durng the past few centuries.- 6. River systems and river science in India,- Section II Earth's climate system and paleoclimate.- 7. Impact of climate change on lichen and moss communities in Ny-Alesund.- 8. High resolution southwest monsoon reconstruction for the past ~ 2800 years.- 9. New record of magnetic properties of late quaternary sediments from the Easatern Arabian Sea.- 10. Anthropogenic climate change: observed facts, projected vulnerabilities and knowledge gaps.- Section III Natural Disasters.- 11. Landslide hazard analysis and management - case study from Nainital, India.- 12. Natural hazards of the Arabian peninsula: their causes and possible remediation.- 13. Influence of Young's modulus and Poisson's ration on the displacement around a circular tunnel.- Section IV Natural Resource Management.- 14. Gas hydrates - viable future and major energy resource of India.- 15. Impact cratering from an Indian perspective.- 16. Optical characterization of backscattering of total suspended matter and its correlation with phytoplankton concentration in the Arabian Sea.