In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society

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 of most of our knowledge comes from scientific studies that try to estimate impacts and project future climate scenarios. In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers, illustrates in vivid detail how people in the Andes, where global climate change has generated the world's most deadly glacial lake outburst floods and glacier avalanches, have grappled...