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Todos hablan acerca de los glaciares en el Peru y del Impacto que genera su derretimiento, pero hasta la actualidad, la mayoria de investigaciones ha examnado la ciencia de los glaciares o se ha enfocado casi por completo en especulaciones sobre lo que podria ocurrir con el cambio climático a futuro. Este es un libro diferente que realiza una contribución invaluable acerca de la forma en que entendemos los glaciares, el cambio climático, los desastres naturales y el agua como recurso. Cubriendo 70 anos de historia en el Callejón de Huaylas y la Cordillera Blanca, este Cibro no trata de 10 que podria ocurrir en el futuro sino de 10 que ya ha sucedido, y como la gente ha percibido y respondido a los desastres glaciares como la avalancha que sepultó el poblado de Yungay en 1970. Explora además los extraordinarios y exitosos proyectos de ingenieria desarrollados para controlarlas amenazantes lagunas glaciares, los que continúan ejecutándose hasta hoy por el petigro latente que representan el desborde e inundación paralas ciudades. Examina también el problema del deciinamiento de recursos hidricos derivados de glaciares, los que siguen impactando en la, generación de energia, la agricultura y la irrigacién de zonas costeras, Este es entonces un libro acerca de cómo la gente se adanta a! carnbio climático a largo plazo, o por qué no logra hacerlo, ofreciendo lecciones criticas para dicha adaptación en el futuro y pera prevención de desastres naturales.
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Now in prospect is a major revision of international bank capital regulations that would embody recent advances in credit risk measurement and management. Previous regulations have been simpler in structure, with a primary goal of getting capital requirements right on average, and thus have largely ignored the difference between average and marginal. This paper presents evidence that explicit treatment in new regulations of several important dimensions of credit risk is necessary. If such dimensions are compressed or ignored, capital arbitrage activities by banks are likely to continue, leading to an increase in bank failure rates over time.
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