Melting Futures: An Environmental History of the Himalayan Cryosphere

融化的未来：喜马拉雅冰冻圈的环境史

• 批准号: DE210101348
• 负责人: Dr Ruth Gamble
• 金额: $ 26万
• 依托单位: La Trobe University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2021-07-12 至 2024-11-02
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE210101348
• 关键词: Melting; Futures; Environmental; History; Himalayan

The Himalaya’s cryosphere (or frozen realm) has underpinned Monsoonal Asia’s climate and water supply for millennia, and now it is disappearing. This project forecasts the Himalaya’s melting future by documenting how its ice has shaped Asia’s past and produced its present. Focusing on the period since the end of the Little Ice Age (the mid-1800s), it investigates the climatic, cultural and geopolitical causes of ice loss, and asks how they have influenced and intensified each other. The project’s multifaceted approach to the cryosphere challenges the current fragmented debates on the melting ice, and will, therefore, generate improvements in cryosphere management.

喜马拉雅山的冰冻圈（或冰冻领域）数千年来一直支撑着亚洲季风区的气候和水供应，现在它正在消失。该项目通过记录喜马拉雅山的冰如何塑造亚洲的过去和产生现在来预测喜马拉雅山融化的未来。本书以小冰期结束（19世纪中期）以来的时期为重点，调查了冰川消失的气候、文化和地缘政治原因，并询问它们是如何相互影响和加强的。该项目对冰冻圈采取的多方面做法挑战了目前关于融冰的零散辩论，因此将改进冰冻圈管理。