Chapter 1. Geology and Tectonic Setting of the Cordillera Blanca (Hall, S.).- Chapter 2. Geomorphological setting of the Cordillera Blanca (Vilímek, V.).- Chapter 3. Climate of the Cordillera Blanca (Yarleque, C.).- Chapter 4. Hydrology and hydrogeology in the Cordillera Blanca (Baraër, M.).- Chapter 5. Lakes of the Cordillera Blanca: typology, inventory, bathymetry and evolution (Emmer, A.).- Chapter 6. Glaciation and the environments of the Cordillera Blanca (Mark, B.G.).- Chapter 7. Climate-morphogenetic and morphodynamic zones of the Western Cordillera in Peru (Vilímek, V.).- Chapter 8. Landslides in the Cordillera Blanca (Klimes, J.).- Chapter 9. Stability of moraine and rock slopes at glacial lakes - two case studies in the Cordillera Blanca (Novotný, J.).- Chapter 10. Glacial lake outburst floods in the Cordillera Blanca (Emmer, A.).- Chapter 11. Current Perspectives on Community, Land, and Water in the Cordillera Blanca (Moulton, H.).- Chapter 12. Human interaction with glacier-related hazards in the Cordillera Blanca (Wegner, S.A.).- Chapter 13. How people feel endangered by natural hazards: interpretation of questionnaires in the Callejón de Huaylas (Vilímek, V.).- Chapter 14. Novel proglacial landscapes and ecosystems in the Cordillera Blanca (Zimmer, A.).- Chapter 15. Anne Smith Peck, Social Systems, and Landscape Change in the Cordillera Blanca from 1908 to the present (Polk, M.H.).