Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 1

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Assessing Climate Change Risks Under Uncertain Conditions

   • Antonello Provenzale, Elisa Palazzi

   Pages 1-5

3. Climate Change and the Mountain Environment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Assessing Climate Impacts on Hydropower Production of Toce Alpine Basin

      • Giovanni Ravazzani, Francesco Dalla Valle, Thomas Mendlik, Giorgio Galeati, Andreas Gobiet, Marco Mancini

      Pages 9-12

   3. Proposal for Climate Change Impact Research in Western Central Andes of Peru

      • Sandra Villacorta, Jose Ubeda, Lucile Tatard, Andrés Diez

      Pages 13-16

   4. Response of Alpine Glaciers in North-Western Italian Alps to Different Climate Change Scenarios

      • Riccardo Bonanno, Christian Ronchi, Barbara Cagnazzi, Antonello Provenzale

      Pages 17-20

   5. Metamorphic CO2 Degassing in the Active Himalayan Orogen: Exploring the Influence of Orogenic Activity on the Long-Term Global Climate Changes

      • Franco Rolfo, Chiara Groppo, Pietro Mosca, Simona Ferrando, Emanuele Costa, Krishna P. Kaphle

      Pages 21-25

   6. Effects of Dust Deposition on Glacier Ablation and Runoff at the Pascua-Lama Mining Project, Chile and Argentina

      • Lukas U. Arenson, Matthias Jakob, Pablo Wainstein

      Pages 27-32

   7. Climatic Characterization of Baltoro Glacier (Karakoram) and Northern Pakistan from In-situ Stations

      • Palazzi Elisa, Tahir Adnan Ahmad, Cristofanelli Paolo, Vuillermoz Elisa, Provenzale Antonello

      Pages 33-37

   8. Current Status and Future Projections of the Snow Depth in the Third Pole from CMIP5 Global Climate Models

      • Terzago Silvia, Von Hardenberg Jost, Palazzi Elisa, Provenzale Antonello

      Pages 39-42

   9. Hydrology of the Upper Indus Basin Under Potential Climate Change Scenarios

      • Andrea Soncini, Daniele Bocchiola, G. Confortola, E. Nana, A. Bianchi, R. Rosso et al.

      Pages 43-49

   10. Assessing Impacts of Climate Change, Ski Slope, Snow and Hydraulic Engineering on Slope Stability in Ski Resorts (French and Italian Alps)

       • Carmen de Jong, Gloria Carletti, Franco Previtali

       Pages 51-55

   11. How Snow and Its Physical Properties Change in a Changing Climate Alpine Context?

       • Fratianni Simona, Terzago Silvia, Acquaotta Fiorella, Faletto Mattia, Garzena Diego, Prola Maria Cristina et al.

       Pages 57-60

   12. Air Temperature Thresholds to Assess Snow Melt at the Forni Glacier Surface (Italian Alps) in the April–June Period: A Contribution to the Application of Temperature Index Models

       • Senese Antonella, Vuillermoz Elisa, Azzoni Roberto Sergio, Verza Gian Pietro, Smiraglia Claudio, Diolaiuti Guglielmina

       Pages 61-68

   13. A System for Assessing the Past, Present and Future of Glacial Resources

       • Marta Chiarle, Guido Nigrelli, Antonello Provenzale

       Pages 69-72

   14. The Case Study of the Changri Nup Glacier (Nepal, Himalaya) to Understand Atmospheric Dynamics and Ongoing Cryosphere Variations

       • Vuillermoz Elisa, Senese Antonella, Diolaiuti Guglielmina, Smiraglia Claudio, Cristofanelli Paolo, Marinoni Angela et al.

       Pages 73-76

   15. Temperature Analysis on the North-Western Italian Alps Through the Use of Satellite Images and Ground-Based Meteorological Stations

       • Diego Garzena, Simona Fratianni, Fiorella Acquaotta

       Pages 77-80

   16. Preliminary Study to Define a Distributed Hydrogeological Model Based on Snow Melt for Groundwater Recharge

       • Muriel Lavy, Marina De Maio, Enrico Suozzi

       Pages 81-85

4. Climate Change and Water Resources

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Seasonal Hydrochemical Changes of Water from Alluvium Aquifers: Drean-Annaba Aquifer Case Study (NE Algeria)

      • L. Djabri, Ch. Fehdi, A. Hani, S. Bouhsina, I. Nouiri, M. C. Djouamaa et al.

      Pages 89-93

This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes and deals with climate change affecting different natural processes and environments, such as slope dynamics, water courses, coastal and marine environments, hydrological and littoral processes and permafrost terrain. Due to climate change, major effects are also expected on territorial planning and infrastructure, particularly in extreme climate regions. The volume and its contents aim to analyze the role of engineering geology and the solutions it may offer with respect to the ongoing environmental changes. Contributions regard the modeling of both the factors and the effects induced by climate change. Potential impacts of the climate change on the common practice and routine work of engineering geologists are also analyzed, with particular attention to the risk assessment and mitigation procedures and to the adaptation measures adopted. The Engineering Geology for Society and Territory volumes of the IAEG XII Congress held in Torino from September 15-19, 2014, analyze the dynamic role of engineering geology in our changing world and build on the four main themes of the congress: environment, processes, issues and approaches. The congress topics and subject areas of the 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes are: Climate Change and Engineering Geology. Landslide Processes. River Basins, Reservoir Sedimentation and Water Resources. Marine and Coastal Processes. Urban Geology, Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation. Applied Geology for Major Engineering Projects. Education, Professional Ethics and Public Recognition of Engineering Geology. Preservation of Cultural Heritage.

• Climate Change
• Climate Change Adaptation Measures
• Climate Change Mitigation Procedures
• Climate Change Risk Assessment
• Engineering Geology
• IAEG XII
• IAEG XII Congress
• Territorial Planning and Infrastructure
• climate change impacts
• historical geology

• Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Turin, Italy

  Giorgio Lollino, Marta Chiarle

• Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR, Turin, Italy

  Andrea Manconi

• Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

  John Clague

• Institute of Engineering Geology, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China

  Wei Shan

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