{"product_id":"climate-forcing-of-geological-hazards-isbn-9780470658659","title":"Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClimate Forcing of Geological Hazards\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClimate Forcing of Geological Hazards\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e Bill McGuire and Mark Maslin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Hazardous responses of the solid Earth to a changing climate\u003cbr\u003e Bill McGuire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Future climate changes in the context of geological and geomorphological hazards\u003cbr\u003e Felicity Liggins, Richard Betts and Bill McGuire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Climate change and collapsing volcanoes: evidence from Mount Etna, Sicily\u003cbr\u003e Kim Deeming, Bill McGuire and Paul Harrop\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Melting ice and volcanic hazards in the twenty-first century\u003cbr\u003e Hugh Tuffen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Multiple effects of ice load changes and associated stress change on magmatic systems\u003cbr\u003e Freysteinn Sigmundsson and others\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Response of faults to climate-driven changes in ice and water volumes at the surface of the Earth\u003cbr\u003e Andrea Hampel, Ralf Hetzel and Georgios Maniatis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Does the El-Niño – Southern Oscillation and influence earthquake activity in the eastern tropical Pacific?\u003cbr\u003e Serge Guillas, Simon Day and Bill McGuire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Submarine landslides and tsunamis in a changing climate\u003cbr\u003e Dave Tappin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Heat waves and slope stability in high mountain terrain\u003cbr\u003e Christian Huggel and others\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Impacts of recent and future climate change on natural hazards in the European Alps\u003cbr\u003e Jasper Knight, Margreth Keiler and Stephan Harrison\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Assessing the past and future stability of global gas hydrate reservoirs\u003cbr\u003e Mark Maslin, Matthew Owen, Richard Betts, Simon Day, Tom Dunkley Jones and Andrew Ridgwell\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Methane hydrate instability: a view from the Palaeogene\u003cbr\u003e Tom Dunkley Jones, Andrew Ridgwell, D. J. Lunt, Mark Maslin, D. N. Schmidt and Paul Valdez\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Overall, this publication should be on the bookshelf of geologists, physical geographers, hydrologists, ecologists, environmental scientists, politicians, and anyone interested or involved in climate change. The wealth of concise information makes it an excellent reference for teaching the interdisciplinary aspects of environmental science and climate change.\"  (\u003ci\u003eInt. J. Environment and Pollution\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 October 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Further, this book convincingly demonstrates the need for greater inclusion of the geoscience research community in discussions on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction planning.”  (\u003ci\u003eGeological Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, 25 February 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“I heartily recommend this book. We all have a stake in surviving climate change.”  (\u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Environmental Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 20July 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"There is useful and interesting material in the book, very much worthy of attention…”  (\u003ci\u003eGeology Today\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 May 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill McGuire\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at University College London. In 2005 he was a member of the UK Government's Natural Hazards Working Group, established in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami, and in 2010 was part of the Government Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, set up to address the ash problem associated with the Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull eruption. He is a contributing author of the 2012 IPCC report on climate change and extreme events.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Maslin\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Palaeoclimatology and Climate Change at University College London. He is a leading scientist with particular expertise in past and future global and regional climatic change and has published over 120 papers in journals such as \u003ci\u003eScience\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGeology\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Scholar and currently holds a Royal Society Industrial Fellowship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClimate Forcing of Geological Hazards\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClimate Forcing of Geological Hazards\u003c\/i\u003e is targeted particularly at academics, graduate students and professionals with an interest in environmental change and natural hazards. 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