Melting Futures: An Environmental History of the Himalayan Cryosphere

喜马拉雅的冰冻圈（或冰冻地带）几千年来一直支撑着季风亚洲的气候和供水，现在它正在消失。这个项目通过记录喜马拉雅冰川如何塑造亚洲的过去和现在，来预测喜马拉雅冰川融化的未来。着眼于自小冰期结束以来的时期（19世纪中期），它调查了冰损失的气候、文化和地缘政治原因，并询问它们是如何相互影响和加剧的。该项目对冰冻圈的多方面研究挑战了目前关于冰融化的零散辩论，因此将促进冰冻圈管理的改进。

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.