Klaus Dodds ist Professor für Geopolitik an der Royal Holloway University of London und Fellow der Academy of Social Sciences. Er promovierte 1994 an der University of Bristol und trat danach eine Stelle an der University of Edinburgh an und wechselte anschließend zu Royal Holloway. Er hatte ein Visiting Erskine Fellowship am Gateway Antarctica der University of Canterbury (2002) und war Visiting Fellow am St Cross College der University of Oxford (2010-11) und am St Johns College der University of Oxford (2017-18). 2005 erhielt er den Philip-Leverhulme-Preis für Geographie und 2016 ein Major Research Fellowship des Leverhulme Trust (2017-2020) für ein Projekt zur „Globalen Arktis“.
Er hat viele Bücher und Artikel veröffentlicht, die sich mit der Geopolitik und Governance der Polarregionen sowie der Kulturpolitik des Eises befassen. Dazu gehören: The Scramble for the Poles (2016), Ice: Nature and Culture und The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know (2019). Er hat als Fachberater für zwei parlamentarische Ausschüsse gedient; the House of Lords Select Committee on the Arctic (2014-5) und die Arktis-Untersuchung des House of Commons Environment Audit Committee (2018). Im Jahr 2019. Er wurde zum britischen Vertreter der IASC-Arbeitsgruppe für Soziales und Mensch ernannt. Er hat die Antarktis bei vier verschiedenen Gelegenheiten besucht und ist ausgiebig in der Arktisregion gereist.
Ice: Nature and Culture pdf von Klaus Dodds
In Ice, Klaus Dodds provides a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural, natural, and geopolitical history of this most slippery of subjects. Beyond Earth, ice has been found on other planets, moons, and meteors—and scientists even think that ice-rich asteroids played a pivotal role in bringing water to our blue home. But our outlook need not be cosmic to see ice’s importance. Here today and gone tomorrow in many parts of the temperate world, ice is a perennial feature of polar and mountainous regions, where it has long shaped human culture. But as climates change, ice caps and glaciers melt, and waters rise, more than ever this frozen force touches at the core of who we are.
As Dodds reveals, ice has played a prominent role in shaping both the earth’s living communities and its geology. Throughout history, humans have had fun with it, battled over it, struggled with it, and made money from it—and every time we open our refrigerator doors, we’re reminded how ice has transformed our relationship with food. Our connection to ice has been captured in art, literature, movies, and television, as well as made manifest in sport and leisure. In our landscapes and seascapes, too, we find myriad reminders of ice’s chilly power, clues as to how our lakes, mountains, and coastlines have been indelibly shaped by the advance and retreat of ice and snow. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Ice is an informative, thought-provoking guide to a substance both cold and compelling.