Our Vanishing Glaciers - Sandford, Robert William
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Erscheint vorauss. 18. März 2025
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The UN General Assembly has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation and established March 21st as World Day for Glaciers . Our Vanishing Glaciers serves as a powerful reminder of the fragility of these natural wonders and the urgent need to protect them for future generations. Winner of the 2017 Lane Anderson Award for best Canadian science writing, this updated paperback edition by Robert Sandford-a leading authority on water and climate science-explores the profound impact of glacier recession. Centred around the Columbia Icefield, a massive ice expanse straddling the…mehr

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The UN General Assembly has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation and established March 21st as World Day for Glaciers . Our Vanishing Glaciers serves as a powerful reminder of the fragility of these natural wonders and the urgent need to protect them for future generations. Winner of the 2017 Lane Anderson Award for best Canadian science writing, this updated paperback edition by Robert Sandford-a leading authority on water and climate science-explores the profound impact of glacier recession. Centred around the Columbia Icefield, a massive ice expanse straddling the Continental Divide, Our Vanishing Glaciers presents an extraordinary array of visual material, from photographs and illustrations to aerial surveys and thermal imaging. Drawing on 45 years of personal observation, Sandford captures the awe-inspiring scale of glaciers in western Canada. Based on compelling evidence, Sandford reveals that as many as 300 glaciers may have disappeared from the Canadian Rockies since 1920. This large-format, fully illustrated book vividly portrays the rapid pace of glacier retreat expected to continue throughout this century, while celebrating the beauty and vital role of water, ice, and snow in the region.
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Autorenporträt
Robert William Sandford is the EPCOR Chair for Water and Climate Security at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health. He is the co-author of the UN's Water in the World We Want report on post-2015 global sustainable development goals relating to water. He is also the author of some 30 books on the history, heritage, and landscape of the Canadian Rockies, including Water, Weather and the Mountain West, Restoring the Flow: Confronting the World's Water Woes, Ethical Water: Learning to Value What Matters Most, Cold Matters: The State and Fate of Canada's Fresh Water, Saving Lake Winnipeg, Flood Forecast: Climate Risk and Resiliency in Canada, Storm Warning: Water and Climate Security in a Changing World, North America in the Anthropocene, Our Vanishing Glaciers: The Snows of Yesteryear and the Future Climate of the Mountain West, The Weekender Effect: Hyperdevelopment in Mountain Towns - Updated Edition, and The Weekender Effect II: Fallout. He is also a co-author of The Columbia River Treaty: A Primer, The Climate Nexus: Water, Food, Energy and Biodiversity in a Changing World, and The Hard Work of Hope: Climate Change in the Age of Trump. Robert lives in Canmore, Alberta.