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Originally published in 1986, The Permafrost Environment examines how the search for oil, gas and minerals in the arctic region instigated new and vitally important needs to understand the permafrost environment. The construction of roads, airfields, buildings and pipelines in this inhospitable environment has posed enormous problems for engineers and geologists. This book is a comprehensive review of the nature of the permafrost environment and its utilization. It looks at environmental processes and their effects and examines the management problems which result. It provides a detailed look at how normal procedures for construction etc. need to be modified to cope with the special conditions and it gives examples from throughout the arctic region, including Canada, Siberia, Alaska, Greenland and Northern Scandinavia.


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  • Author : Stuart A. Harris
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : Science
  • Total Pages : 290 pages
  • ISBN : 1000703851
  • PDF File Size : 50,5 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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The Permafrost Environment

The Permafrost Environment
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 33,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 31 March 2020
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Originally published in 1986, The Permafrost Environment examines how the search for oil, gas and minerals in the arctic region instigated new and vitally important needs to understand the permafrost environment.

Once Upon the Permafrost

Once Upon the Permafrost
  • Publisher : Critical Green Engagements: In
  • File Size : 49,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 30 November 2021
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Once Upon the Permafrost is a longitudinal climate ethnography about "knowing" a specific culture and the ecosystem that culture physically and spiritually depends on in the twenty-first-century context of climate

Thawing Permafrost

Thawing Permafrost
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • File Size : 49,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 January 2020
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This book provides a cross-disciplinary overview of permafrost and the carbon cycle by providing an introduction into the geographical distribution of permafrost, with a focus on the distribution of permafrost

Life of Permafrost

Life of Permafrost
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • File Size : 51,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 13 May 2024
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By tracing the English word permafrost back to its Russian roots, this unique intellectual history uncovers the multiple, contested meanings of permafrost as a scientific idea and environmental phenomenon.

Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
  • Publisher : Academic Press
  • File Size : 46,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 27 October 2014
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Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in glacier surges and melting, ice shelf collapses, paleo-climate reconstruction, sea level rise, climate change implications,

Permafrost Soils

Permafrost Soils
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • File Size : 30,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 31 October 2008
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Most of the Earth’s biosphere is characterized by low temperatures. Vast areas (>20%) of the soil ecosystem are permanently frozen or are unfrozen for only a few weeks in summer.