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This is the first textbook to consider all aspects of the cryosphere system in the context of global environmental change driven by human activity and climate. * Considers all six aspects of the cryosphere - ice sheets, glacier ice, permafrost, river and lake ice, sea ice and snow - in the context of global environmental change driven by human activity and climate. * Describes a new concept of cryosphere transience and landscape transition which links climate, hydrology, ecology and geomorphology. * Looks at the evidence, process, and patterns of cryosphere change, on local and global scales. * Provides a wealth of data to inform the current global environmental change debate.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Environmental science, engineering & technology

• Full title: Cryosphere and Global Environmental Change
• Author: Olav Slaymaker, Richard Kelly
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• EAN: 9781405129763
• ISBN: 140512976X
• ID: 04954854
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Weight: 664 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 190 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. December 2006

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