The Social Life of Climate Change Models: Anticipating Nature - Couverture rigide

 
9780415628587: The Social Life of Climate Change Models: Anticipating Nature
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 041562858X ISBN 13 : 9780415628587
Editeur : Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only comparable but also deeply entangled. Through analysis of predictive practices in a diversity of regions affected by climate change - including coastal India, the Cook Islands, Tibet, and the High Arctic, and various domains of scientific expertise and policy making such as ice core drilling, flood risk modelling, and coastal adaptation - the book shows how all attempts at modelling nature's course are deeply social, and how current research in "climate" contributes to a rethinking of nature as a multiplicity of modalities that impact social life.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kirsten Hastrup is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.

Martin Skrydstrup is a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Copenhagen.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
041562858X
ISBN 13 
9780415628587
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
Éditeur
Hastrup Kirsten, Skrydstrup Martin
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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