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
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.