Effects of climate change on mass movements in mountain environments

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 421-439

  Stoffel, Markus ^a   Huggel, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alps; climate change; glacier; hazard; landslide; mass movement; permafrost

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIER; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE MARGIN; MASS MOVEMENT; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SLOPE STABILITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

ALPS;

EID: 84861224129     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133312441010     Document Type: Review

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