Global climate change has triggered profound changes at the ground level and for real people. This book illustrates in vivid detail how 25,000 Peruvian residents died from melting Andean glaciers. Successful engineering efforts to prevent additional catastrophes simultaneously helped commodify glaciers, erode local authority, and unleash contested modernization agendas in the Andes. INDICE: Introduction; 1.: Melted Ice Destroys a City: Huaraz, 1941; 2.:Geo-Racial Disorder beneath Enchanted Lakes; 3.: Engineering the Andes, Nationalizing Natural Disaster; 4.: High Development Follows Disasters; 5.: In Pursuit of Danger: Defining and Defending Hazard Zones; 6.: The Story of VanishingWater Towers; 7.: The Risk of Neoliberal Glaciers; Conclusion; Appendix 1 Glacier-Related Disasters in Cordillera Blanca History; Appendix 2 Government Entities Conducting Glacier and Glacial Lake Projects; Appendix 3 Selected Cordillera Blanca Glacial Lake Security Projects; Notes; Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-539607-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 286
- Fecha Publicación: 29/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés