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In addition to a general description of climate change, the chapter summarises the natural hazards associated with inland ice sheets, glaciers, oceans and permafrost. While these flows are changing significantly due to climate change, they are often not considered natural hazards because they do not involve human or material sacrifice. However, their changes are sometimes already having a major impact on other processes affecting society. The first part of this chapter analyses the physical background and trends of climate change and presents some of its possible causes, ecological and economical consequences. It then analyses the impact of climate change on inland ice sheets, glaciers and the state of the oceans. Finally, it dissects what can be done to reduce these damaging trends.
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Mezősi, G. (2022). Climate Change and Its Impacts. In: Natural Hazards and the Mitigation of their Impact. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07226-0_7
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