List of contributors Preface .................................. vii
Bill McGuire and Mark Maslin ................................... ix
1 Hazardous responses of the solid Earth to a changing
climate ...................................................... 1
Bill McGuire
2 Projected future climate changes in the context of
geological and geomorphological hazards ..................... 34
Felicity Liggins, Richard A. Betts and Bill McGuire
3 Climate change and collapsing volcanoes: evidence from
Mount Etna, Sicily .......................................... 56
Kim Deeming, Bill McGuire and Paul Harrop
4 Melting ice and volcanic hazards in the twenty-first
century ..................................................... 78
Hugh Tuffen
5 Multiple effects of ice load changes and associated stress
change on magmatic systems ................................. 108
Freysteinn Sigmundsson, Fabien Albino, Peter Schmidt,
Björn Lund, Virginie Pinel, Andrew Hooper and Carolina
Pagli
6 Response of faults to climate-driven changes in ice and
water volumes at the surface of the Earth .................. 124
Andrea Hampel, RalfHetzel and Georgios Maniatis
7 Does the El-Niflo - Southern Oscillation influence
earthquake activity in the eastern tropical Pacific? ....... 143
Serge Guillas, Simon Day and Bill McGuire
8 Submarine mass failures as tsunami sources - their climate
control .................................................... 166
David R. Tappin
9 High-mountain slope failures and recent and future warm
extreme events ............................................. 195
Christian Huggel, Nadine Salzmann and Simon Allen
10 Impacts of recent and future climate change on natural
hazards in the European Alps ............................... 223
Jasper Knight, Margreth Keiler and Stephan Harrison
11 Assessing the past and future stability of global gas
hydrate reservoirs ......................................... 250
Mark Maslin, Matthew Owen, Richard A. Betts, Simon Day,
Tom Dunkley Jones and Andrew Ridgwell
12 Methane hydrate instability: a view from the Palaeogene .... 278
Tom Dunkley Jones, Ruza E. Ivanović, Andrew Ridgwell,
Daniel J. Lunt, Mark A. Maslin, Paul J. Valdes and Rachel
Flecker
Index ......................................................... 305
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