寄与者volume editors: Wilfried Haeberli, Colin Whiteman.
一般注記Chapter 1. Snow and ice-related hazards, risks, and disasters: a general framework / Wilfried Haeberli and Colin Whiteman -- Chapter 2. Physical, thermal, and mechanical properties of snow, ice, and permafrost / Lukas U. Arenson, William Colgan and Hans Peter Marshall -- Chapter 3. Snow and ice in the climate system / Atumu Ohmura -- Chapter 4. Snow and ice in the hydrosphere / Jan Seibert ... [et al.] -- Chapter 5. Snow, ice, and the biosphere / Terry V. Callaghan and Margareta Johansson -- Chapter 6. Ice and snow as land-forming agents / Darrel A. Swift ... [et al.] -- Chapter 7. Mountains, lowlands, and coasts: the physiography of cold landscapes / Tobias Bolch and Hanne H. Christiansen -- Chapter 8. Integrated approaches to adaptation and disaster risk reduction in dynamic socio-cryospheric systems / Mark Carey ... [et al.] -- Chapter 9. Integrative risk management: the example of snow avalanches / Michael Bründl and Stefan Margreth -- Chapter 10. Permafrost degradation / Dmitry Streletskiy, Oleg Anisimov and Alexander Vasiliev -- Chapter 11. Radioactive waste under conditions of future ice ages / Urs H. Fischer ... [et al.] -- Chapter 12. Snow avalanches / Jürg Schweizer, Perry Bartelt and Alec van Herwijnen -- Chapter 13. Glacier surges / William D. Harrison ... [et al.] -- Chapter 14. Glacier-related outburst floods / John J. Clague and Jim E. O'Connor -- Chapter 15. Ice loss and slope stability in high-mountain regions / Philip Deline ... [et al.] -- Chapter 16. Catastrophic mass flows in the mountain glacial enviornment / Stephen G. Evans an Keith B. Delaney -- Chapter 17. Hazards at ice-clad volcanoes: phenomena, processes, and examples from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile / Hugo Delgado Granados ... [et al.] -- Chapter 18. Floating ice and ice pressure challenge to ships / Ivana Kubat, Captain David Fowler and Mohamed Sayed -- Chapter 19. Retreat instability of tidewater glaciers and marine ice sheets / Andreas Vieli -- Chapter 20. Ice sheets, glaciers, and sea level. / Ian Allison ... [et al.].