Research Catalog

Title

Cold matters : the state and fate of Canada's fresh water / Robert William Sandford.

Author

Sandford, Robert W.

Publication

Victoria [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books, c2012.

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Description

xiii, 256 p. : col. ill., col. maps, ports.; 23 cm.

Summary

Cold matters distills the scientific complexities of snow, ice, water, and climate and presents the global implications of research put forth and funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. This timely book gives the concerned reader an opportunity to take part in the conversation about our global environment; in the end, Cold matters will change the way you think about ice and snow.

Subject

• Ice > Canada
• Snow > Canada
• Climatic changes > Canada
• Freshwater ecology > Canada
• Glace > Canada
• Neige > Canada
• Climat > Changements > Canada
• Écologie d'eau douce > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The people, the places, the prize -- 2. Ice matters -- 3. What the snows are telling us -- 4. The impermanence of permafrost -- 5. Collective breakthrough -- 6. Two degrees of separation -- 7. Choosing our path

ISBN

• 9781927330197
• 192733019X

LCCN

^^2012517681

OCLC

797278483

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library