Earth System Processes and Disaster Management

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Global Warming and the Glacier Retreat: An Overview....Pages 9-23
Asynchronous Behavior of Glaciers of Ladakh Himalaya, J & K State, India....Pages 25-36
Signatures and Evidences of Surging Glaciers in the Shyok Valley, Karakoram Himalaya, Ladakh Region, Jammu & Kashmir State, India....Pages 37-50
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....Pages 51-66
River Systems and River Science in India: Major Drivers and Challenges....Pages 67-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Impact of Climate Change on Lichen and Moss Communities in Ny-Ålesund, Arctic: Some Preliminary Observations....Pages 93-100
High Resolution Southwest Monsoon Reconstruction for the Past ~2,800 Years: Wind Versus Precipitation....Pages 101-112
New Record of Magnetic Properties of Late Quaternary Sediments from the Eastern Arabian Sea (off Goa): Inferences on Palaeoclimate....Pages 113-121
Anthropogenic Climate Change: Observed Facts, Projected Vulnerabilities and Knowledge Gaps....Pages 123-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Landslide Hazard Analysis and Management: A Case Study from Nainital, India....Pages 141-154
Natural Hazards of the Arabian Peninsula: Their Causes and Possible Remediation....Pages 155-180
Influence of Young’s Modulus and Poisson’s Ratio on the Displacement Around a Circular Tunnel....Pages 181-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Gas Hydrate: A Viable Future Major Energy Resource of India....Pages 205-211
Impact Cratering from an Indian Perspective....Pages 213-229
Optical Characterization of Backscattering by Total Suspended Matter and Its Correlation with Phytoplankton Concentration in the Arabian Sea....Pages 231-239
Back Matter....Pages 241-244