Author: Pan American Union. Division of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Colleges and Universities in the United States Having Courses for the Study of Latin America
Author: Pan American Union. Division of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers
Author: Mark CareyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974257X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis because most of our knowledge comes from scientific studies that try to estimate impacts and project future climate scenarios. This book is different, illustrating in vivid detail how people in the Andes have grappled with the effects of climate change and ensuing natural disasters for more than half a century. In Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range, global climate change has generated the world's most deadly glacial lake outburst floods and glacier avalanches, killing 25,000 people since 1941. As survivors grieved, they formed community organizations to learn about precarious glacial lakes while they sent priests to the mountains, hoping that God could calm the increasingly hostile landscape. Meanwhile, Peruvian engineers working with miniscule budgets invented innovative strategies to drain dozens of the most unstable lakes that continue forming in the twenty first century. But adaptation to global climate change was never simply about engineering the Andes to eliminate environmental hazards. Local urban and rural populations, engineers, hydroelectric developers, irrigators, mountaineers, and policymakers all perceived and responded to glacier melting differently-based on their own view of an ideal Andean world. Disaster prevention projects involved debates about economic development, state authority, race relations, class divisions, cultural values, the evolution of science and technology, and shifting views of nature. Over time, the influx of new groups to manage the Andes helped transform glaciated mountains into commodities to consume. Locals lost power in the process and today comprise just one among many stakeholders in the high Andes-and perhaps the least powerful. Climate change transformed a region, triggering catastrophes while simultaneously jumpstarting modernization processes. This book's historical perspective illuminates these trends that would be ignored in any scientific projections about future climate scenarios.
Courses on Latin America in Institutions of Higher Education in the United States
Author: Pan American Union. Division of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Area Study Programs in American Universities
Author: United States Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Language and Area Study Programs in American Universities
Author: United States. Department of State. External Research DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Resources Survey for Latin American Countries
Author: United States. Bureau of Educational and Cultural AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Itineraries of Expertise
Author: Andra B. ChastainPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822987325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and military operations and more recent studies have probed the cultural dimensions of the conflict, the experts who constitute the focus of this volume escaped these categories. Although they often portrayed themselves as removed from politics, their work contributed to the key geopolitical agendas of the day. The paths traveled by the experts in this volume not only traversed Latin America and connected Latin America to the Global North, they also stretch traditional chronologies of the Latin American Cold War to show how local experts in the early twentieth century laid the foundation for post–World War II development projects, and how Cold War knowledge of science, technology, and the environment continues to impact our world today. These essays unite environmental history and the history of science and technology to argue for the importance of expertise in the Latin American Cold War.
The Department of State Bulletin
Author: Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public WelfarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1624
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