Canadian Physical Geography Perspectives on Natural Hazards, Climate Variability and Change

Laura J. Brown; Jaclyn Cockburn; R. Adam Dastrup; Steven Earle

Book Title: Canadian Physical Geography Perspectives on Natural Hazards, Climate Variability and Change

Authors: Laura J. Brown; Jaclyn Cockburn; R. Adam Dastrup; and Steven Earle

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Introduction
R. Adam Dastrup and Laura J. Brown
I. Introduction to Natural Hazards and Climatic Variability
1. 1. 1.1 Natural Hazards, Disasters, Risk, and Vulnerability
  Laura J. Brown and R. Adam Dastrup
2. 2. 1.2 Global Population
  Laura J. Brown and R. Adam Dastrup
3. 3. 1.3 Mitigation
  Laura J. Brown
4. 4. 1.4 Magnitude and Frequency of Natural Hazards
  Laura J. Brown
5. 1.5 Climate Variability vs Climate Change and its effect on Natural Hazards
  Laura J. Brown
6. 1.6 Natural Hazard Connections
  Laura J. Brown
II. Plate Tectonics
1. 2.1 Our Solar System and Earth
  R. Adam Dastrup; Laura J. Brown; and Jaclyn Cockburn
2. 2.2 Internal Structure of Earth
  R. Adam Dastrup and Laura J. Brown
3. 2.3 Alfred Wegener: The Father of Plate Tectonics
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
4. 2.4 Paleomagnetism and Sea Floor Spreading
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
5. 2.5 Tectonic Plates, Plate Motion, and Plate Boundary Processes
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
6. 2.6 Mechanisms for Plate Motion
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
III. Earthquakes
1. 3.1 What is an Earthquake?
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
2. 3.2 Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
3. 3.3 Measuring Earthquakes
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
4. 3.4 The Impacts of Earthquakes
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
5. 3.5 Forecasting Earthquakes and Minimizing Damage and Casualties
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
IV. Volcanoes
1. 5. 4.1 What Is A Volcano?
  Karla Panchuk
2. 4.2 Plate Tectonics and Volcanism
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
3. 4.3 Magma Composition and Eruption Style
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
4. 4.4 Types of Volcanoes
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
5. 4.5 Volcanic Hazards
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
6. 4.6 Monitoring Volcanoes and Predicting Eruptions
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
7. 4.7 Volcanoes in British Columbia
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
V. Tsunamis
1. 5.1 Tsunami
  R. Adam Dastrup and Laura J. Brown
VI. Streams and Flooding
1. 7.1 The Hydrological Cycle
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
2. 7.2 Drainage Basins
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
3. 7.3 Stream Types
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
4. 7.4 Stream Erosion and Deposition
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
5. 7.5 River Flooding
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
VII. Weathering and Mass Wasting
1. 6.1 Weathering
  R. Adam Dastrup and Laura J. Brown
2. 6.2 Mechanical Weathering
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
3. 6.3 Chemical Weathering
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
4. 6.4 Weathering and Climate Change
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
5. 6.5 Factors That Control Slope Stability
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
6. 6.6 Classification of Mass Wasting
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
7. 6.7 Preventing, Delaying, Monitoring, and Mitigating Mass Wasting
  Steven Earle
VIII. 8. Weather Elements and Severe Weather
1. 8.0 Solar Energy, Heat and Heat Transfer
  Professor Jeremy Patrich MA and Laura J. Brown
2. 8.1 Elements of Weather
  Professor Jeremy Patrich MA and Laura J. Brown
3. 8.2 Air Masses and Weather Fronts
  R. Adam Dastrup and Laura J. Brown
4. 8.3 Extratropical (Midlatitude) Cyclones
  R. Adam Dastrup and Laura J. Brown
5. 8.4 Thunderstorms
  R. Adam Dastrup; GISP; and Laura J. Brown
6. 8.5 Weather Hazards
  R. Adam Dastrup and Laura J. Brown
7. 8.6 Tropical Cyclones/Hurricanes
  R. Adam Dastrup and Laura J. Brown
IX. 10. Climate
1. 10.1 Climate Systems
  R. Adam Dastrup and Laura J. Brown
2. 10.2 Controls of Climate
  R. Adam Dastrup and Laura J. Brown
3. 10.3 What Makes the Climate Change?
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
4. 10.4 Earth’s Climate History
  R. Adam Dastrup and Laura J. Brown
5. 10.5 Long-Term Climate Change
  R. Adam Dastrup and Laura J. Brown
6. 10.6 ENSO
  R. Adam Dastrup and Laura J. Brown
7. 10.7 Anthropogenic Climate Change
  R. Adam Dastrup and Laura J. Brown
X. 9.0 Coastal Hazards
1. 9.1 Waves
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
2. 9.2 Landforms and Coastal Erosion
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
3. 9.3 Sea-Level Change
  Steven Earle and Laura J. Brown
4. 9.4 Sea Level Rise
XIII. Appendix
1. Science as a Way of Knowing
  R. Adam Dastrup; Laura J. Brown; and Jaclyn Cockburn

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Laura J. Brown; Jaclyn Cockburn; R. Adam Dastrup; and Steven Earle

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Title: Canadian Physical Geography Perspectives on Natural Hazards, Climate Variability and Change
Authors: Laura J. Brown; Jaclyn Cockburn; R. Adam Dastrup; and Steven Earle
Editor: Laura J. Brown
License: Canadian Physical Geography Perspectives on Natural Hazards, Climate Variability and Change Copyright © 2022 by Laura J. Brown; Jaclyn Cockburn; R. Adam Dastrup; and Steven Earle is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Primary Subject: Geography
Additional Subject(s): Volcanology and seismology, Geomorphology and geological surface processes, Hydrology and the hydrosphere, Meteorology and climatology, Climatology and climate modelling
Institution: University of Guelph
Publication Date: September 1, 2022