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Darkening peaks : glacier retreat, science, and society
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- Creator
- edited by Ben Orlove, Ellen Wiegandt, and Brian H. Luckman
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- English
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- viii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 0520253051, 9780520253056
- OCLC
- ocn608574830, ocn126228735
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270) and index.
- Overview, glaciers in science and society : The place of glaciers in natural and cultural landscapes / Ben Orlove, Ellen Wiegandt, Brian H. Luckman
- Pt.1 Societal perceptions, cultures and institutions : Changing views of changing glaciers / Wilfried Haeberli -- Challenges of living with glaciers in the Swiss Alps, past and present / Ellen Wiegandt, Ralph Lugon -- Environment, history, and culture as influences on perceptions of glacier dynamics : the case of Mt. Shasta / Barbara Wolf, Ben Orlove -- Glacial hazards : perceiving and responding to threats in four world regions / Christian Huggel, Wilfried Haeberli, Andreas Kääb
- Pt.2 Scientific observations : measurement, monitoring, and modeling : Two alpine glaciers over the past two centuries : a scientific view based on pictorial sources / Daniel Steiner, Heinz J. Zumbühl, Andreas Bauder -- Long-term observations of glaciers in Norway / Liss M. Andreassen, Hallgeir Elvehøy, Bjarne Kjøllmoen, Miriam Jackson, Rune Engeset -- Alpinewide distributed glacier mass balance modeling : a tool for assessing future glacier change? / Frank Paul, Horst Machguth, Martin Hoelzle, Nadine Salzmann, Wilfried Haeberli -- Modeling climate-change impacts on mountain glaciers and water resources in the central dry Andes / Javier G. Corripio, Ross S. Purves, Andrés Rivera
- Pt.3 Trends in natural landscapes, climate change : Glacier mass balance in the northern U.S. and Canadian Rockies : paleo-perspectives and twentieth-century change / Emma Watson, Gregory T. Pederson, Brian H. Luckman, Daniel B. Fagre -- Glacier fluctuations in the European Alps, 1850-2000 : an overview and a spatiotemporal analysis of available data / Michael Zemp, Frank Paul, Martin Hoelzle, Wilfried Haeberli -- Tropical glaciers, climate change, and society : focus on Kilimanjaro (East Africa) / Thomas Mölg, Douglas R. Hardy, Nicolas J. Cullen, Georg Kaser
- Pt.4 Impacts on human landscapes : resources, hazards, and cultural landscapes : New Zealand's glaciers : key national and global assets for science and society / John E. Hay, Tui L. Elliott -- The impact of mining on rock glaciers and glaciers : examples from Central Chile / Alexander Brenning -- Glacier changes and their impacts on mountain tourism : two case studies from the Italian Alps / Claudio Smiraglia, Guglielmina Diolaiuti, Manuela Pelfini, Marco Belò, Michele Citterio, Teresa Carnielli, Carlo D'Agata -- Mama Cotacachi : history, local perceptions, and social impacts of climate change and glacier retreat in the Ecuadorian Andes / Robert E. Rhoades, Xavier Zapata Ríos, Jenny Aragundy Ochoa
- Pt.5 Responses, adaptation and accommodation : The politics of place : inhabiting and defending glacier hazard zones in Peru's Cordillera Blanca / Mark Carey -- Responses to glacier retreat in the context of development planning in Nepal / Shardul Agrawala -- Glaciers and efficient water use in Central Asia / Urs Luterbacher, Valerii Kuzmichenok, Gulnara Shalpykova, Ellen Wiegandt -- Research and development in mountain glaciers : an overview of institutions and organizations / Denis Knubel, Greg Greenwood, Ellen Wiegandt