Earth System Processes and Disaster Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Earth Systems: Cryosphere and Hydrosphere

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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3. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Rajiv Sinha, Rasik Ravindra

      Pages 1-6

4. Earth Systems: Cryosphere and Hydrosphere

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Global Warming and the Glacier Retreat: An Overview

      • V. K. Raina

      Pages 9-23

   3. Asynchronous Behavior of Glaciers of Ladakh Himalaya, J & K State, India

      • R. K. Ganjoo, M. N. Koul

      Pages 25-36

   4. Signatures and Evidences of Surging Glaciers in the Shyok Valley, Karakoram Himalaya, Ladakh Region, Jammu & Kashmir State, India

      • Anjani Kumar Tangri, Ram Chandra, S. K. S. Yadav

      Pages 37-50

   5. Antarctic Climate Variability During the Past Few Centuries Based on Ice Core Records from Coastal Dronning Maud Land and Its Implications on the Recent Warming

      • Meloth Thamban, Sushant S. Naik, C. M. Laluraj, Arun Chaturvedi, Rasik Ravindra

      Pages 51-66

   6. River Systems and River Science in India: Major Drivers and Challenges

      • R. Sinha, Vikrant Jain, S. K. Tandon

      Pages 67-90

5. Earths Climate System and Paleoclimate

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Impact of Climate Change on Lichen and Moss Communities in Ny-Ålesund, Arctic: Some Preliminary Observations

      • S. M. Singh, Rasik Ravindra

      Pages 93-100

   3. High Resolution Southwest Monsoon Reconstruction for the Past ~2,800 Years: Wind Versus Precipitation

      • Manish Tiwari

      Pages 101-112

   4. New Record of Magnetic Properties of Late Quaternary Sediments from the Eastern Arabian Sea (off Goa): Inferences on Palaeoclimate

      • S. K. Patil, A. D. Singh

      Pages 113-121

   5. Anthropogenic Climate Change: Observed Facts, Projected Vulnerabilities and Knowledge Gaps

      • Rajesh Agnihotri, Koushik Dutta

      Pages 123-137

6. Natural Disasters

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Landslide Hazard Analysis and Management: A Case Study from Nainital, India

      • D. Chakraborty, R. Anbalagan

      Pages 141-154

   3. Natural Hazards of the Arabian Peninsula: Their Causes and Possible Remediation

      • Arun Kumar

      Pages 155-180

   4. Influence of Young’s Modulus and Poisson’s Ratio on the Displacement Around a Circular Tunnel

      • A. K. Verma, T. N. Singh

      Pages 181-201

7. Natural Resource Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Gas Hydrate: A Viable Future Major Energy Resource of India

      • Kalachand Sain

      Pages 205-211

One of the fundamental goals of earth system science research is to adopt a more holistic view of the earth as a ‘system’ comprising different domains. The Society of Earth Scientists has brought out this multidisciplinary publication to emphasize the need of an integrated approach to understand the Earth system.

It focuses on natural disasters and, in particular, on climate change and its effects in Asia and understanding the significance of these developments within the context of the paleo-climatic record. The later sections of the book then focus on other types of natural disasters as well as those induced by human interaction with our environment.

• Atmospheric Processes
• Climate Change
• Disaster
• Earth System
• Society of Earth
• Surface-Subsurface Processes
• climate change impacts

• , Dept. OF Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Lucknow, India

  Rajiv Sinha

• The Society of Earth Sciences, Indira Nagar, National Center for Antarctic and Ocean, Lucknow, India

  Rasik Ravindra

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