Canada's Cold Environments

✍ Scribed by Hugh M. French; Olav Slaymaker

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 363
• Series: Canadian Association of Geographers Series in Canadian Geography; 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Eleven of Canada's leading geographers, geologists, and ecologists provide an authoritative, readable collection of scientific essays about the physical nature of Canada's coldness. They focus on the distinctive attributes of Canada's cold environments, their temporal and spatial variability, and the constraints that coldness places on human activity. Canada's Cold Environments is aimed at environmental scientists at all levels who need informed overviews of the substantive findings on a range of cold-related topics.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Tables
Figures
Contributors
Preface
PART ONE: COLD LAND, COLD SEAS
1 Canada's Cold Land Mass
2 Canada's Cold Seas
PART TWO: NORTHERN AND POLAR LANDS
3 Northern Climates
4 Northern Vegetation
5 Northern Hydrology
6 Cold-Climate Processes and Landforms
PART THREE: MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTS
7 Cold Mountains of Western Canada
8 Karst in Cold Environments
9 Mountain Paleoenvironments of Western Canada
10 Mountain Hazards
PART FOUR: THE CHANGING COLD ENVIRONMENTS
11 Climate Variability, Change, and Sensitivity
12 Climatic Change and Permafrost
13 Cold Environments and Global Change
Index
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