MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009025809
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008 090623s2010 nyuab b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780195396065 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9780195396072 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn436310089
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050 00 $aQC988.P4$bC37 2010
082 00 $a551.6985$222
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 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.
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.