Ice: Nature and Culture

Ice: Nature and Culture pdf

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Klaus Dodds

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Klaus Dodds è professore di geopolitica alla Royal Holloway, Università di Londra e membro dell'Accademia delle scienze sociali. Ha completato il suo dottorato di ricerca presso l'Università di Bristol nel 1994, e da allora in poi ha assunto una posizione presso l'Università di Edimburgo e da allora in poi è entrato a far parte della Royal Holloway. Ha tenuto una Visiting Erskine Fellowship presso il Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury (2002) ed è stato visiting Fellow presso il St Cross College, University of Oxford (2010-11) e il St Johns College, University of Oxford (2017-18). Nel 2005 è stato insignito del Premio Philip Leverhulme per la geografia e nel 2016 ha ricevuto una borsa di studio per la ricerca maggiore dal Leverhulme Trust (2017-2020) per un progetto relativo al "Global Arctic". Ha pubblicato molti libri e articoli riguardanti la geopolitica e il governo delle regioni polari, nonché la politica culturale del ghiaccio. Questi includono: The Scramble for the Poles (2016), Ice: Nature and Culture e The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know (2019). Ha servito come consulente specializzato in due commissioni parlamentari selezionate; il comitato ristretto della Camera dei Lord sull'Artico (2014-5) e l'inchiesta sull'Artico della Commissione di audit ambientale della Camera dei Comuni (2018). Nel 2019 è stato nominato rappresentante del Regno Unito del Social and Human Working Group dello IASC. Ha visitato l'Antartide in quattro diverse occasioni e ha viaggiato molto nella regione artica.

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Ice: Nature and Culture pdf da 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.

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