Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards

Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards 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.Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards 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.

List of ContributorsForewordBill McGuire and Mark MaslinChapter 1: Hazardous responses of the solid Earth to a changingclimateBill McGuireChapter 2: Future climate changes in the context of geologicaland geomorphological hazardsFelicity Liggins, Richard Betts and Bill McGuireChapter 3: Climate change and collapsing volcanoes: evidencefrom Mount Etna, SicilyKim Deeming, Bill McGuire and Paul HarropChapter 4: Melting ice and volcanic hazards in the twenty-firstcenturyHugh TuffenChapter 5: Multiple effects of ice load changes and associatedstress change on magmatic systemsFreysteinn Sigmundsson and othersChapter 6: Response of faults to climate-driven changes in iceand water volumes at the surface of the EarthAndrea Hampel, Ralf Hetzel and Georgios ManiatisChapter 7: Does the El-Niño - Southern Oscillationand influence earthquake activity in the eastern tropicalPacific?Serge Guillas, Simon Day and Bill McGuireChapter 8: Submarine landslides and tsunamis in a changingclimateDave TappinChapter 9: Heat waves and slope stability in high mountainterrainChristian Huggel and othersChapter 10: Impacts of recent and future climate change onnatural hazards in the European AlpsJasper Knight, Margreth Keiler and Stephan HarrisonChapter 11: Assessing the past and future stability of globalgas hydrate reservoirsMark Maslin, Matthew Owen, Richard Betts, Simon Day, Tom DunkleyJones and Andrew RidgwellChapter 12: Methane hydrate instability: a view from thePalaeogeneTom Dunkley Jones, Andrew Ridgwell, D. J. Lunt, Mark Maslin, D. N.Schmidt and Paul ValdezIndex