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almahu_9949071182202882
Format:
1 online resource (337 p.)
ISBN:
9781119817925
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1119817927
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9781119817918
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1119817919
Series Statement:
Sciences, Geography and demography
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Description based upon print version of record.
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5 The Consequences of Climate Change on the Paraglacial Sedimentary Cascade.
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Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Spatial Impacts of Climate Change: Multi-scale Issues -- 1.1. The impact of contemporary climate change on forest fires in Australia in 2019-2020: a systemic approach -- 1.2. The impacts of contemporary climate change: a multi-scalar approach -- I.3. References -- 1 Climate Change at Different Temporal and Spatial Scales -- 1.1. Contemporary global climate change -- 1.2. Contemporary Arctic-wide climate change -- 1.3. Future global climate change -- 1.4. Future Arctic-wide climate change
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1.5. The causes of climate change -- 1.5.1. Solar radiation -- 1.5.2. Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions -- 1.5.3. Volcanism -- 1.5.4. Albedo and the radiation balance -- 1.6. Conclusion -- 1.7. References -- 2 Climate Change and the Melting Cryosphere -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The sensitivity of the cryosphere to climate change -- 2.3. Melting of the marine cryosphere -- 2.3.1. The melting of the Arctic sea ice -- 2.3.2. Antarctic sea ice -- 2.4. Melting of the Earth's cryosphere -- 2.4.1. Melting ice sheets -- 2.4.2. The melting of mountain glaciers -- 2.4.3. Decreasing permafrost
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2.4.4. Melting snow -- 2.5. Consequences of the melting cryosphere -- 2.5.1. On a global scale: rising sea levels -- 2.5.2. Regionally: paraglacial risks -- 2.6. Conclusion -- 2.7. References -- 3 Between Warming and Globalization: Rethinking the Arctic at the Heart of a Stakes System -- 3.1. Spatial impacts of climate change in the Arctic -- 3.1.1. Clarifying the terms of the subject in their polar contexts -- 3.2. The manufacture of polar issues, between global warming and globalization -- 3.2.1. Warming and space production, a decade of confusion off the Arctic coasts
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3.2.2. Three interacting contexts -- 3.3. The production of polar doctrines: rhetoric and frameworks for action -- 3.3.1. Factors of convergence and consensus -- 3.3.2. Differentiation factors -- 3.3.3. The strategic dimensions of Arctic policies, the complex issue of polar militarization -- 3.4. Geography of a new system of stakeholder relations in the Arctic -- 3.5. Conclusion: polar metamorphisms -- 3.6. References -- 4 Coastlines with Increased Vulnerability to Sea-level Rise -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Coastlines under the influence of sea-level rise
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4.2.1. The pressures of climate change on coastlines -- 4.2.2. Consequences of sea-level rise on coastlines -- 4.3. Increasingly attractive coastlines for societies -- 4.3.1. The coastalization process -- 4.3.2. A densification of activities on the coastlines -- 4.3.3. A closer approach to the sea -- 4.4. Towards the necessary adaptation of coastal areas -- 4.4.1. The coastline, an area at risk -- 4.4.2. Possible coping strategies -- 4.4.3. The example of the Netherlands -- 4.5. Which coastline for tomorrow? -- 4.6. References
Additional Edition:
Print version: Mercier, Denis Spatial Impacts of Climate Change Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2021 ISBN 9781789450095
Language:
English
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119817925
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119817925
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119817925
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