Tree Rings and Natural Hazards A State-of-Art
The initial employment of tree rings in natural hazard studies was simply as a dating tool and rarely exploited other environmental information and records of damage contained within the tree. However, these unique, annually resolved, tree-ring records pr
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ADVANCES IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH VOLUME 41
Editor-in-Chief Martin Beniston, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial Advisory Board B. Allen-Diaz, Department ESPM-Ecosystem Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. R.S. Bradley, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. W. Cramer, Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany. H.F. Diaz, Climate Diagnostics Center, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA. S. Erkman, Institute for Communication and Analysis of Science and Technology–ICAST, Geneva, Switzerland. R. Garcia Herrera, Faculated de Fisicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. M. Lal, Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. U. Luterbacher, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. I. Noble, CRC for Greenhouse Accounting and Research School of Biological Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. L. Tessier, Institut Mediterranéen d’Ecologie et Paléoécologie, Marseille, France. F. Toth, International Institute for Environment and Sustainability, EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy. M.M. Verstraete, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy.
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Markus Stoffel Michelle Bollschweiler David R. Butler Brian H. Luckman ●
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Editors
Tree Rings and Natural Hazards A State-of-the-Art
Editors Markus Stoffel Laboratory of Dendrogeomorphology Institute of Geological Sciences University of Bern 3012 Bern Switzerland and Chair for Climatic Change and Climate Impacts Institute for Environmental Sciences University of Geneva 1227 Carouge-Geneva Switzerland [email protected]
Michelle Bollschweiler Laboratory of Dendrogeomorphology Institute of Geological Sciences University of Bern 3012 Bern Switzerland and Chair for Climatic Change and Climate Impacts Institute for Environmental Sciences University of Geneva 1227 Carouge-Geneva Switzerland [email protected]
David R. Butler Department of Geography Texas State University San Marcos, TX 78666-4616 USA [email protected]
Brian H. Luckman Department of Geography University of Western Ontario London ON N6A 5C2 Canada [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-481-8735-5 e-ISBN 978-90-481-8736-2 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-8736-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010926582 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover illustration: Front cover (top to bo