Earth System Processes and Disaster Management - Sinha, Rajiv; Ravindra, Rasik; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Preface - 1. Introduction,- Section I Earth Systems: Cryosphere and hydrosphere -- 2. Global warming and glacier retreat - an overview -- 3. Asynchronous behaviour of glaciers of Ladakh Himalaya -- 4. Signatures and evidences of surging glaciers in Shyok valley -- 5. Antarctic climate variability durng the past few centuries -- 6. River systems and river science in India,- Section II Earth's climate system and paleoclimate -- 7. Impact of climate change on lichen and moss communities in Ny-Alesund -- 8. High resolution southwest monsoon reconstruction for the past ~ 2800 years -- 9. New record of magnetic properties of late quaternary sediments from the Easatern Arabian Sea -- 10. Anthropogenic climate change: observed facts, projected vulnerabilities and knowledge gaps -- Section III Natural Disasters -- 11. Landslide hazard analysis and management - case study from Nainital, India -- 12. Natural hazards of the Arabian peninsula: their causes and possible remediation -- 13. Influence of Young's modulus and Poisson's ration on the displacement around a circular tunnel -- Section IV Natural Resource Management -- 14. Gas hydrates - viable future and major energy resource of India -- 15. Impact cratering from an Indian perspective -- 16. Optical characterization of backscattering of total suspended matter and its correlation with phytoplankton concentration in the Arabian Sea.
Keywords: Physical geography; Climate change; Geology; Geophysics; Earth System Sciences; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Climate Change; Geology; Geophysics/Geodesy.