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| Overview: Glaciers in Science and Society | |
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| The Place of Glaciers in Natural and Cultural Landscapes | |
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| Societal Perceptions: Cultures and Institutions | |
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| Changing Views of Changing Glaciers | |
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| Challenges of Living with Glaciers in the Swiss Alps, Past and Present | |
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| Environment, History, and Culture as Influences on Perceptions of Glacier Dynamics: The Case of Mt. Shasta | |
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| Glacial Hazards: Perceiving and Responding to Threats in Four World Regions | |
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| Scientific Observations: Measurement, Monitoring, and Modeling | |
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| Two Alpine Glaciers over the Past Two Centuries: A Scientific View Based on Pictorial Sources | |
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| Long-Term Observations of Glaciers in Norway | |
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| Alpinewide Distributed Glacier Mass Balance Modeling: A Tool for Assessing Future Glacier Change? | |
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| Modeling Climate-Change Impacts on Mountain Glaciers and Water Resources in the Central Dry Andes | |
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| Trends in Natural Landscapes: Climate Change | |
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| Glacier Mass Balance in the Northern U.S. and Canadian Rockies: Paleo-Perspectives and Twentieth-Century Change | |
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| Glacier Fluctuations in the European Alps, 1850-2000: An Overview and a Spatiotemporal Analysis of Available Data | |
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| Tropical Glaciers, Climate Change, and Society: Focus on Kilimanjaro (East Africa) | |
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| Impacts on Human Landscapes: Resources, Hazards, and Cultural Landscapes | |
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| New Zealand's Glaciers: Key National and Global Assets for Science and Society | |
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| The Impact of Mining on Rock Glaciers and Glaciers: Examples from Central Chile | |
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| Glacier Changes and Their Impacts on Mountain Tourism: Two Case Studies from the Italian Alps | |
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| Mama Cotacachi: History, Local Perceptions, and Social Impacts of Climate Change and Glacier Retreat in the Ecuadorian Andes | |
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| Responses: Adaptation and Accommodation | |
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| The Politics of Place: Inhabiting and Defending Glacier Hazard Zones in Peru's Cordillera Blanca | |
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| Responses to Glacier Retreat in the Context of Development Planning in Nepal | |
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| Glaciers and Efficient Water Use in Central Asia | |
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| Research and Development in Mountain Glaciers: An Overview of Institutions and Organizations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |