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ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURES
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| By: |
Jessica Barnes |
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Paperback |
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£19.99 |
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1119278325 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781119278320 |
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| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC |
| Pub. date: |
9 May, 2016 |
| Series: |
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series |
| Pages: |
212 |
| 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. |
| Synopsis: |
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 Egypt * Approaches prognosis as a cultural, political, and material process * Reveals the ways in which authority and expertise may be reinforced, circumscribed, or contested in the process of making a prediction and its aftermath * Offers novel insights on how and why futures come to be significant in the present |
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US |
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John Wiley & Sons Inc |
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Returnable |
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