克劳斯·多兹 是伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院地缘政治学教授和社会科学院院士。他于 1994 年在布里斯托大学完成博士学位，随后在爱丁堡大学任职，随后加入皇家霍洛威学院。他曾在坎特伯雷大学（2002 年）在 Gateway Antarctica 担任访问厄斯金奖学金，并在牛津大学圣十字学院（2010-11 年）和牛津大学圣约翰学院（2017-18 年）担任访问学者。 2005 年，他被授予 Philip Leverhulme 地理奖，并于 2016 年获得 Leverhulme Trust 的主要研究奖学金（2017-2020），用于与“全球北极”有关的项目。
他出版了许多有关极地地缘政治和治理以及冰的文化政治的书籍和文章。其中包括：极地争夺战（2016 年）、冰：自然与文化和北极：每个人都需要知道的事情（2019 年）。他曾担任两个议会特别委员会的专家顾问；上议院北极特别委员会 (2014-5) 和下议院环境审计委员会的北极调查 (2018)。 2019 年，他被任命为 IASC 社会与人类工作组的英国代表。他曾四次访问南极洲，并在北极地区进行了广泛的旅行。
Ice: Nature and Culture pdf 克劳斯·多兹
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.