In the shadow of melting glaciers : climate change and Andean society
Mark Carey
Bok · Engelsk · 2010
| Utgitt | New York : Oxford University Press , 2010
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| Omfang | VII, 273 s.. : ill., kart
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| Opplysninger | Melted ice destroys a city : Huaraz, 1941 -- Georacial disorder beneath enchanted lakes -- Engineering the Andes, nationalizing natural disaster -- High development follows disasters -- In pursuit of danger : defining and defending hazard zones -- The story of vanishing water towers -- The risk of neoliberal glaciers -- Appendix 1: Selected Cordillera Blanca glacial lake security projects -- Appendix 2: Glacier-related disasters in Cordillera Blanca history -- Appendix 3: Government entities conducting glacier and glacial lake projects.
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| ISBN | 9780195396065. - 9780195396072
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