Environmental Futures Paperback / softback
by Jessica Barnes
Part of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
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
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:27/05/2016
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- ISBN:9781119278320
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:27/05/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781119278320
