Environmental Futures
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
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Concerns about the exploitation of limited resources, optimum development trajectories, and climate change draw attention to the temporal horizons of our environment - Environmental Futures is a curated collection of essays that explores different ways of knowing the future and how these futures shape contemporary social worlds. Includes a range of detailed case studies, from ice melting in Antarctica to coal mining in Bangladesh, flooding in Colombia to climate modelling in EgyptApproaches prognosis as a cultural, political, and material processReveals the ways in which authority and expertise may be reinforced, circumscribed, or contested in the process of making a prediction and its aftermathOffers novel insights on how and why futures come to be significant in the present
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2016-05-27
- Mått168 x 244 x 8 mm
- Vikt318 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series
- Antal sidor212
- FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
- ISBN9781119278320