Environmental Futures

Environmental Futures

Barnes, Jessica

John Wiley & Sons Inc

05/2016

212

Mole

Inglês

9781119278320

15 a 20 dias

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.
* Prognosis: visions of environmental futures (Andrew S. Mathews and Jessica Barnes) * Sensing the ice: field science, models, and expert intimacy with knowledge (Jessica O Reilly) * Uncertainty in the signal: modelling Egypt s water futures (Jessica Barnes) * Subsoil abundance and surface absence: a junior mining company and its performance of prognosis in Northwestern Ecuador (David Kneas) * Mines and signs: resource and political futures in Bangladesh (Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury) * Chronicle of a disaster foretold: scientific risk assessment, public participation, and the politics of imperilment in Bristol Bay, Alaska (Karen Hebert) * A doubtful hope: resource affect in a future oil economy (Gisa Weszkalnys) * Liquid Oman: oil, water, and causality in Southern Arabia (Mandana Limbert) * Prognosis past: the temporal politics of disaster in Colombia (Austin Zeiderman) * Claiming futures (Elizabeth Ferry) Index
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