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In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society 1st Edition
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But adaptation to global climate change was never simply about engineering the Andes to eliminate environmental hazards. Local urban and rural populations, engineers, hydroelectric developers, irrigators, mountaineers, and policymakers all perceived and responded to glacier melting differently-based on their own view of an ideal Andean world. Disaster prevention projects involved debates about economic development, state authority, race relations, class divisions, cultural values, the evolution of science and technology, and shifting views of nature. Over time, the influx of new groups to manage the Andes helped transform glaciated mountains into commodities to consume. Locals lost power in the process and today comprise just one among many stakeholders in the high Andes-and perhaps the least powerful. Climate change transformed a region, triggering catastrophes while simultaneously jumpstarting modernization processes. This book's historical perspective illuminates these trends that would be ignored in any scientific projections about future climate scenarios.
- ISBN-100195396073
- ISBN-13978-0195396072
- Edition1st
- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication dateApril 7, 2010
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6 x 0.8 x 9.1 inches
- Print length288 pages
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Carey throws some comparative light and insight on how many communities world-wide will have to deal with either disappearing glaciers (Andes, Himalayas, Canada) or reduced snow-pack. --Acequias and Adjudication: A blog on water rights in New Mexico
In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers shows us a region of the planet experiencing the effects of climate change and writes a fascinating, nuanced history of people trying to cope with the changes. --Social Science Research Council, IDRF Book Exchange
If the characteristics of first-rate historical scholarship are solid primary research, rigorous analysis and masterful narrative, Carey has supplied them all in buckets --A Contracorriente, A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America
Mark Carey in this book has crafted a well-written narration of the history of glacial lakes and glacier-related hazards in the Peruvian Andes and their interrelation with socioeconomic development in the region. --Mountain Research and Development
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Mark Carey is an Assistant Professor of History in the Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon.
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- Publisher : Oxford University Press; 1st edition (April 7, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0195396073
- ISBN-13 : 978-0195396072
- Item Weight : 15.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.8 x 9.1 inches
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- Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2015Remarkable book. Takes you right there and you shiver at the thought that all glaciers are melting. It ain't right............
- Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2019Excellent and important book that confronts and rethinks many issues regarding global warming. Also, highly readable.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2018This is a great book that puts a unique face on climate change. If you are interested in glaciers, Latin America, or climate history/change, this is a good choice for you. Both undergraduate and graduate students could understand the themes in this book.
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- Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2010This new book is simply fantastic. It puts a real, human face on the complex abstractions we associate with climate change. The writing is sharp, alive and makes plain the author's authentic and deep understanding of his subject. Carey manages to make technical and historical matters not only entirely accessible but extremely interesting. The book reads like a story yet teaches like a text. I've read so much about climate change and I think In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers is the most important addition to climate change work since An Inconvenient Truth. Can't recommend it enough.
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- Fellow of RGSReviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2020
4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating
Very interesting and useful for my current assignment, but why did it take so long to arrive from a UK supplier?