Permafrost Response on Economic Development, Environmental Security and Natural Resources

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Cyclic Evolution of Man and Permafrost: The Role of Permafrost on Societal Environment....Pages 3-13
Main Results of Earth Cryosphere Studies and Sustainable Development....Pages 15-26
Permafrost in a Changing Environment....Pages 27-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Terrestrial and Offshore Permafrost Evolution of the Laptev Sea Region During the Last Pleistocene-Holocene Glacial-Eustatic Cycle....Pages 43-60
A circumarctic map of perennially frozen deposits and ground ices (scale 1: 10 000 000)....Pages 61-68
Geocryological Mapping of Arctic Shelves....Pages 69-86
Study of Arctic Ecosystems within the Framework of Loira Project....Pages 87-93
Offshore Permafrost and Oil and Gas Field Development....Pages 95-103
The Cryolithozone of the Shelf of Barents and Kara Sea....Pages 105-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Evolution of Cryolithozone in the Pleistocene and Holocene....Pages 139-149
Permafrost Equivalents from Boreal to Tropical Zones....Pages 151-184
Permafrost During the Pleistocene in North West and Central Europe....Pages 185-194
European permafrost at the LGM and at its maximal extent....Pages 195-213
Permafrost Extent at the Last Glacial Maximum and at the Holocene Optimum. the Climex Map....Pages 215-225
Sequence of Glaciations and Permafrost Events....Pages 227-252
A Pleistocene Rock-Glacier Above the Teletskoye Lake. An Indicator of Permafrost....Pages 253-257
Permafrost Investigations in the Italian Mountains: The State of the Art....Pages 259-273
Response of the Permafrost to Contemporary and Expected Climate Change....Pages 277-292
Effect of permafrost changes on economic development, environmental security and natural resource potential in Alaska....Pages 293-296
Permafrost: changes and impacts....Pages 297-315
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Geothermal studies of permafrost response to global natural changes....Pages 317-332
Changes in Permafrost Landscapes Under Global Change....Pages 333-339
Climatic Warming and Permafrost....Pages 341-366
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Methodological Principles of Forecasting Interaction Between Engineering Structures and Environment in the Permafrost Zone....Pages 369-374
Factor of start conditions by site selection for underground disposal of nuclear materials in northwest Russia....Pages 375-376
Geocryological processes and management principles Under changing climate and human activities....Pages 377-406
Problems of permafrost engineering as related to global climate warming....Pages 407-423
Some prospects for heat pump applications in permafrost engineering....Pages 425-435
Program for international cooperation in permafrost engineering....Pages 437-440
Basis for and development of IcePE Information System in domain of glaciology, ice and permafrost engineering....Pages 441-449
Recommendations for foundations and bases built on frozen soils....Pages 451-458
Front Matter....Pages 459-459
Gas hydrates in permafrost....Pages 463-486
Methane distribution in permafrost: evidence for an interpore pressure methane hydrate....Pages 487-496
The problem of the emission of deep-buried gases to the atmosphere....Pages 497-509
Flux of methane from north siberian aquatic systems: Influence on atmospheric methane....Pages 511-524
Micro-organisms and biomarkers in permafrost....Pages 527-541
Ecology of Psychrophilic and Psychrotrophic Micro-Organisms in Cold and Frozen Soils....Pages 543-551
Significance to Astrobiology of Micro-Organisms in Permafrost and Ice....Pages 553-579
Patterned Ground As An Evidence Of Water On Mars A Comparison with Planet Earth....Pages 581-588
Russian national geocryological database and a strategy for its development....Pages 591-599
Front Matter....Pages 459-459
The proposed International permafrost monitoring Network and service....Pages 601-606
Front Matter....Pages 607-607
Nato-advanced research worshop Envir.ARW.971752 on Permafrost Response on Economic Development, Environmental Security and Natural Resources Novosibirsk, Siberia/Russia, November 12–16 November 1998....Pages 609-636