McGuire / Maslin Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-48266-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten, E-Book

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGuire, Bill

Maslin, Mark A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors
Foreword
Bill McGuire and Mark Maslin
Chapter 1: Hazardous responses of the solid Earth to a changingclimate
Bill McGuire
Chapter 2: Future climate changes in the context of geologicaland geomorphological hazards
Felicity Liggins, Richard Betts and Bill McGuire
Chapter 3: Climate change and collapsing volcanoes: evidencefrom Mount Etna, Sicily
Kim Deeming, Bill McGuire and Paul Harrop
Chapter 4: Melting ice and volcanic hazards in the twenty-firstcentury
Hugh Tuffen
Chapter 5: Multiple effects of ice load changes and associatedstress change on magmatic systems
Freysteinn Sigmundsson and others
Chapter 6: Response of faults to climate-driven changes in iceand water volumes at the surface of the Earth
Andrea Hampel, Ralf Hetzel and Georgios Maniatis
Chapter 7: Does the El-Niño - Southern Oscillationand influence earthquake activity in the eastern tropicalPacific?
Serge Guillas, Simon Day and Bill McGuire
Chapter 8: Submarine landslides and tsunamis in a changingclimate
Dave Tappin
Chapter 9: Heat waves and slope stability in high mountainterrain
Christian Huggel and others
Chapter 10: Impacts of recent and future climate change onnatural hazards in the European Alps
Jasper Knight, Margreth Keiler and Stephan Harrison
Chapter 11: Assessing the past and future stability of globalgas hydrate reservoirs
Mark Maslin, Matthew Owen, Richard Betts, Simon Day, Tom DunkleyJones and Andrew Ridgwell
Chapter 12: Methane hydrate instability: a view from thePalaeogene
Tom Dunkley Jones, Andrew Ridgwell, D. J. Lunt, Mark Maslin, D. N.Schmidt and Paul Valdez
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bill McGuire is Professor of Geophysical and ClimateHazards at University College London. In 2005 he was a member ofthe UK Government's Natural Hazards Working Group, established inthe wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami, and in 2010 was part of theGovernment Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, set up toaddress the ash problem associated with the IcelandicEyjafjallajökull eruption. He is a contributing author of the2012 IPCC report on climate change and extreme events.
Mark Maslin is Professor of Palaeoclimatology andClimate Change at University College London. He is a leadingscientist with particular expertise in past and future global andregional climatic change and has published over 120 papers injournals such as Science, Nature, and Geology.He is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Scholar and currentlyholds a Royal Society Industrial Fellowship.