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Oxford University Press
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Subjects
Environmental conditions, Climatic changes, Social conditions, Emergency management, Glaciers, Environmental engineering, Social aspects of Climatic changes
Places
Peru, Blanca, Cordillera (Peru), Andes Region

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Table of Contents

Melted ice destroys a city : Huaraz, 1941
Geo-racial 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: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
551.6985
Library of Congress
QC988.P4 C37 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

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OL23712239M
ISBN 13
9780195396065, 9780195396072
LCCN
2009025809

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