Global Warming and Human - Nature Dimension in Northern Eurasia

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hiyama, Tetsuya (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Takakura, Hiroki (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Global Environmental Studies,
• Subjects: Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Environmental sociology.; Climate change.; Ecology .; Hydrology.; Environmental management.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Environmental Sociology.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Terrestial Ecology.; Hydrology/Water Resources.; Environmental Management.

This book describes the current environmental changes due to global warming in northern Eurasia, especially focusing on eastern Siberia. Spring flooding, ice-jam movements, and monitoring using remote sensing are included. Additionally, current reindeer herding of indigenous peoples in Siberia and r...

Table of Contents:

• 01. Water, water everywhere: Perceptions of chaotic water regimes in northeastern Siberia, Russia.-Susan A. Crate
• 02. Sakha (Yakutia): the local projections of climate changes and problems of adaptation of the indigenous peoples.-Vanda Ignat'eva
• 03. Local perception of river thaw and spring flooding of the Lena River.-Hiroki Takakura
• 04. Monitoring spring floods in the Lena river using multiple satellite sensors.-Manabu Watanabe, Hiroki Takakura, Chinatsu Yonezawa, Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, Masanobu Shimada
• 06. Study on using air temperature data to calculate changes in ice sheet thickness on the Lena River toward ice-jam disaster prediction.-Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, Hiroki Takakura, Manabu Watanabe, Tetsuya Hiyama, Toru Sakai
• 07. Ice movement in the Lena River and the effects of spring flooding on human society: An interpretation of local sources integrated with satellite imagery using a multidisciplinary approach.-Hiroki Takakura, Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, Manabu Watanabe, Toru Sakai, Tetsuya Hiyama
• 08. Flood risk and migration in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).-Junko Fujiwara
• 09. Reindeer herding and environmental change in some reindeer herding regions, Sakha Republic: Comparison with Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District.-Atsushi Yoshida
• 10. Reindeer herding and environmental change in the Tompo District, Sakha Republic.-Atsushi Nakada
• 11. History of the transport infrastructure development in Yakutia.-Sardana I. Boyakova
• 12. Political economy of extreme events in Northern Finland.-Monica Tennberg, Terhi Vuojala-Magga, Joonas Vola, Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen, Minna Turunen
• 13. Adaptation strategies for risk and uncertainty: The role of an interdisciplinary approach including natural and human sciences.-Makoto Okumura
• 14. Social adaptation to the changes of the terrestrial ecosystem in eastern Siberia, with an emphasis on water environments.-Tetsuya Hiyama.