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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society
    sub title: An Interdisciplinary Approach
  name:
    name part: Bobrowsky, Peter T.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Rickman, Hans.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVI, 546 p. online resource.
  abstract: In 1908 an atmospheric explosion in northern Siberia released energy equivalent to 15 Mton of TNT. Can a comparable or larger NEO affect us again? When the next NEO strikes Earth will it be large enough to destroy a city? Will the climate change significantly? Can archaeology and anthropology provide insights into the expected cultural responses with NEO interactions? Does society have a true grasp of the actual risks involved? Is the Great Depression a good model for the economic collapse that could follow a NEO catastrophe? This volume provides a necessary link between various disciplines and comet/asteroid impacts.
  table of contents: Anthropology, Archaeology, Geology -- The Geologic Record of Destructive Impact Events on Earth -- The Archaeology and Anthropology of Quaternary Period Cosmic Impact -- The Sky on the Ground: Celestial Objects and Events in Archaeology and Popular Culture -- Umm al Binni Structure, Southern Iraq, as a Postulated Late Holocene Meteorite Impact Crater -- Tree-Rings Indicate Global Environmental Downturns that could have been Caused by Comet Debris -- The GGE Threat: Facing and Coping with Global Geophysical Events -- Astronomy and Physical Implications -- The Asteroid Impact Hazard and Interdisciplinary Issues -- The Impact Hazard: Advanced NEO Surveys and Societal Responses -- Understanding the Near-Earth Object Population: the 2004 Perspective -- Physical Properties of NEOs and Risks of an Impact: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges -- Evaluating the Risk of Impacts and the Efficiency of Risk Reduction -- Physical Effects of Comet and Asteroid Impacts: Beyond the Crater Rim -- Frequent Ozone Depletion Resulting from Impacts of Asteroids and Comets -- Tsunami as a Destructive Aftermath of Oceanic Impacts -- The Physical and Social Effects of the Kaali Meteorite Impact — a Review -- The Climatic Effects of Asteroid and Comet Impacts: Consequences for an Increasingly Interconnected Society -- Nature of the Tunguska Impactor Based on Peat Material from the Explosion Area -- The Tunguska Event -- Tunguska (1908) and Its Relevance for Comet/Asteroid Impact Statistics -- Atmospheric Megacryometeor Events versus Small Meteorite Impacts: Scientific and Human Perspective of a Potential Natural Hazard -- Socio-Economic and Policy Implications -- Social Science and Near-Earth Objects: an Inventory of Issues -- Perception of Risk from Asteroid Impact -- Hazard Risk Assessment of a Near Earth Object -- Social Perspectives on Comet/Asteroid Impact (CAI) Hazards: Technocratic Authority and the Geography of Social Vulnerability -- May Land Impacts Induce a Catastrophic Collapse…
  note: edited by Peter T. Bobrowsky, Hans Rickman.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Human geography
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Human Geography
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Economics
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: QB980-991
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783540327110
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32711-0
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204181340.0
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