Canada's cold environments
Title:
Canada's cold environments
Author:
French, Hugh M.
ISBN:
9780773563544
Publication Information:
Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1993.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxii, 340 p.) : ill., maps.
Series:
Canadian Association of Geographers series in Canadian geography
Canadian Association of Geographers series in Canadian geography.
Contents:
Canada's cold land mass / Hugh M. French, Olav Slaymaker -- Canada's cold seas / Roger G. Barry -- Northern climates / Wayne R. Rouse -- Northern vegetation / James C. Ritchie -- Northern hydrology / Ming-Ko Woo -- Cold-climate processes and landforms / Hugh M. French -- Cold mountains of Western Canada / Olav Slaymaker -- Karst in cold environments / Derek C. Ford -- Mountain paleoenvironments of Western Canada / John J. Clague -- Mountain hazards / James S. Gardner -- Climate variability, change, and sensitivity / Ellsworth F. LeDrew -- Climatic change and permafrost / Michael W. Smith -- Cold environments and global change / Olav Slaymaker, Hugh M. French.
Abstract:
Eleven of Canada's leading geographers, geologists, and ecologists provide an authoritative yet readable scientific statement 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.
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Electronic Access:
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