Glacier Science and Environmental Change
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Author(s): P. G. Knight (Ed.)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 1405100184
Format: hardback
527pp
Price: £125.00
Review Date: 13 November 2006
Review: This large book comprises 92 chapters, written by leading figures, that provide a picture of current scientific understanding of key issues that relate the study of glaciers to the broader field of environmental change. There are five sections, each with a keynote introduction and a series of articles reviewing particularly significant areas within the topic. The sections include: glaciers and their coupling with hydraulic and sedimentary processes; Glaciers, oceans, atmosphere and climate; Changing glaciers and their role in Earth surface evolution; Glacier composition, mechanics and dynamics; and The practice of glaciology.