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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819060303321

Autore

Taillant Jorge Daniel <1968->

Titolo

Glaciers : the politics of ice / / Jorge Daniel Taillant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-756292-2

0-19-936727-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Classificazione

SCI026000

Disciplina

551.31/2

Soggetti

Glaciers

Glacial erosion

Glaciers - Environmental aspects

Glaciers - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2015.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Glaciers are one of the worlds most important natural resources, and yet they are largely unprotected by environmental policy. This book is a scientific, cultural, and political examination of the worlds ice, showing all the ways in which glaciers are critical to our global ecosystem and making suggestions for protecting them better in the future.