Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Global Warming and the Glacier Retreat: An Overview

Chapter 3 Asynchronous Behavior of Glaciers of Ladakh Himalaya, J & K State, India

Chapter 4 Signatures and Evidences of Surging Glaciers in the Shyok Valley, Karakoram Himalaya, Ladakh Region, Jammu & Kashmir State, India

Chapter 5 Antarctic Climate Variability During the Past Few Centuries Based on Ice Core Records from Coastal Dronning Maud Land and Its Implications on the Recent Warming

Chapter 6 Earth System Processes and Disaster Management

Chapter 7 Impact of Climate Change on Lichen and Moss Communities in Ny-Ålesund, Arctic: Some Preliminary Observations

Chapter 8 High Resolution Southwest Monsoon Reconstruction for the Past ~2,800 Years: Wind Versus Precipitation

Chapter 9 New Record of Magnetic Properties of Late Quaternary Sediments from the Eastern Arabian Sea (off Goa): Inferences on Palaeoclimate

Chapter 10 Anthropogenic Climate Change: Observed Facts, Projected Vulnerabilities and Knowledge Gaps

Chapter 11 Landslide Hazard Analysis and Management: A Case Study from Nainital, India

Chapter 12 Natural Hazards of the Arabian Peninsula: Their Causes and Possible Remediation

Chapter 13 Influence of Young’s Modulus and Poisson’s Ratio on the Displacement Around a Circular Tunnel

Chapter 14 Gas Hydrate: A Viable Future Major Energy Resource of India

Chapter 15 Impact Cratering from an Indian Perspective

Chapter 16 Optical Characterization of Backscattering by Total Suspended Matter and Its Correlation with Phytoplankton Concentration in the Arabian Sea