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Ice humanities

Editat de Klaus Dodds, Sverker Sörlin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 aug 2022
Ice humanities is a pioneering collection of essays that tackles the existential crisis posed by the planet's diminishing ice reserves. By the end of this century, we will likely be facing a world where sea ice no longer reliably forms in large areas of the Arctic Ocean, where glaciers have not just retreated but disappeared, where ice sheets collapse, and where permafrost is far from permanent. The ramifications of such change are not simply geophysical and biochemical. They are societal and cultural, and they are about value and loss. Where does this change leave our inherited ideas, knowledge and experiences of ice, snow, frost and frozen ground? How will human, animal and plant communities superbly adapted to cold and high places cope with less ice, or even none at all? The ecological services provided by ice are breath-taking, providing mobility, water and food security for hundreds of millions of people around the world, often Indigenous and vulnerable communities. The stakes could not be higher. Drawing on sources ranging from oral testimony to technical scientific expertise, this path-breaking collection sets out a highly compelling claim for the emerging field of ice humanities, convincingly demonstrating that the centrality of ice in human and non-human life is now impossible to ignore.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526157775
ISBN-10: 1526157772
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 31 black & white figures; 1 table
Dimensiuni: 161 x 240 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Notă biografică

Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics and Executive Dean of the School of Life Sciences and Environment at Royal Holloway, University of London
Sverker Sörlin is Professor of Environmental History at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Descriere

This collection develops the field of ice humanities in order to reveal the centrality of ice and the need to understand better why, where, and how it matters to human and more than human life. -- .