Glacier Science and Environmental Change is an authoritative and comprehensive reference work on contemporary issues in glaciology. It explores the interface between glacier science and environmental change, in the past, present, andfuture. Written by the worlds foremost authorities in the subject and researchers at the scientific frontier where conventional wisdom of approach comes face to face with unsolved problems, this book provides:state-of-the-art reviewsof the key topics in glaciology and related disciplines in environmental changecutting-edge case studies of the latest research an interdisciplinary synthesis of the issues that draw together the research efforts of glaciologists andscientists from other areas such as geologists, hydrologists, and climatologistscolor-plate section (with selected extra figures provided in color at www.blackwellpublishing.com/knight).The topics in this book have been carefully chosen to reflect current priorities in research, the interdisciplinary nature ofthe subject, and the developing relationship between glaciology and studies of environmental change. Glacier Science and Environmental Change is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate research students, and professional researchers in glaciology, geology, geography, geophysics, climatology, and related disciplines.
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-9653-6
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 544
- Fecha Publicación: 17/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés