Glaciers : the politics of ice / Jorge Daniel Taillant.
By: Taillant, Jorge Daniel.
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015Description: xxi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199367252 (hardback).Subject(s): Glaciers | Glacial erosion | Glaciers -- Environmental aspects | Glaciers -- Social aspects | SCIENCE / Environmental ScienceGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | GB2405 .T35 2015 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000007847 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- How to Read this Book -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Dynamiting Glaciers -- Chapter 2: What is a Glacier? -- Chapter 3: The Birth of Cryoactivism -- Chapter 4: Invisible Glaciers -- Chapter 5: The Barrick Veto -- Chapter 6: Life without Glaciers -- Chapter 7: Resurgence -- Chapter 8: Amazing Glacier Stuff -- Chapter 9: Implementation -- Chapter 10: The Human Right... to Glaciers? -- Chapter 11: Final Words -- Annex: -- 1) The Argentine National Glacier Protection Law -- 2) Bibliography -- 3) About the Author.
"Glaciers is a volume about the role glaciers play in our daily lives (often without us knowing), the risks posed to glaciers from natural and anthropogenic activity (including climate change and industrial pollution), and policies and practices that should be employed to protect this fundamental hydrological reserve"--