Book description
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.
Bill McGuire is Professor of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at
University College London. In 2005 he was a member of the UK
Government's Natural Hazards Working Group, established in the wake of
the Indian Ocean tsunami, and in 2010 was part of the Government
Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, set up to address the ash
problem associated with the Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull eruption. He is
a contributing author of the 2012 IPCC report on climate change and
extreme events.
Mark Maslin is Professor of Palaeoclimatology and Climate
Change at University College London. He is a leading scientist with
particular expertise in past and future global and regional climatic
change and has published over 120 papers in journals such as
Science, Nature, and Geology. He is a Royal
Society Wolfson Research Merit Scholar and currently holds a Royal
Society Industrial Fellowship.
