In the shadow of melting glaciers
Subtitle: climate change and Andean society
By: Mark Carey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780195396065; 9780195396072
Description: "Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis. This book illustrates in vivid detail how people in the Andes, where global climate change has generated the world's most deadly glacial lake, outburst floods, and glacier avalanches, have grappled with the effects of climate change and ensuing natural disasters for more than half a century."--[book cover].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Melted ice destroys a city : Huaraz, 1941; title: Georacial disorder beneath enchanted lakes; title: Engineering the Andes, nationalizing natural disaster; title: High development follows disasters; title: In pursuit of danger : defining and defending hazard zones; title: The story of vanishing water towers; title: The risk of neoliberal glaciers; title: Appendix 1: Selected Cordillera Blanca glacial lake security projects; title: Appendix 2: Glacier-related disasters in Cordillera Blanca history; title: Appendix 3: Government entities conducting glacier and glacial lake projects.