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020 $a9780195396065 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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100 1 $aCarey, Mark$q(Mark P.)
245 10 $aIn the shadow of melting glaciers :$bclimate change and Andean society /$cMark Carey.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2010.
300 $avii, 273 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [203]-264) and index.
505 0 $aMelted 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.
520 $a"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].
650 0 $aClimatic changes$zPeru.
650 0 $aGlaciers$zPeru.
650 0 $aClimatic changes$xSocial aspects$zPeru.
650 0 $aEnvironmental engineering$zPeru.
650 0 $aEmergency management$zPeru.
651 0 $aPeru$xEnvironmental conditions.
651 0 $aAndes Region$xEnvironmental conditions.
651 0 $aBlanca, Cordillera (Peru)$xEnvironmental conditions.
651 0 $aPeru$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aBlanca, Cordillera (Peru)$xSocial conditions.
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