Olav Slaymaker & Richard Kelly 
The Cryosphere and Global Environmental Change 

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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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.

1. The Evidence for Cryospheric Change.

2. The Monitoring of Cryospheric Change.

3. Processes of Cryospheric Change.

4. Patterns of the Contemporary Cryosphere at Local to Global
Scales.

5. The Evidence for Past Cryospheric Changes.

6. The Transience of the Cryosphere and Transitional
Landscapes.

7. Cryospheric Change and Vulnerability at Quaternary, Holocene,
and Anthropocene Timescales.

References.

Index

Über den Autor

Professor Slaymaker’s research has four foci: mountain
hydrogeomorphology, land use impacts, sustainable development and
global environmental change. From 1994-2002 he was a Governor of
the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa.

Professor Kelly’s research focuses on the use of
measurements from remote sensing ground, aircraft and satellite
instruments coupled with environmental models to better understand
the cryosphere, especially snow and ice environments. He is also
interested in the development of new technologies for improved
direct in situ and remote sensing measurements of the
cryosphere.