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The social life of climate change models : anticipating nature / edited by Kirsten Hastrup and Martin Skrydstrup.
Penn Museum Library QC902.9 .S63 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in anthropology ; 8.
- Routledge studies in anthropology ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Forecasting.
- Climatic changes.
- Ethnology.
- Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 240 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Contents:
- 1 Anticipating Nature: The Productive Uncertainty of Climate Models / Kirsten Hastrup Hastrup, Kirsten 1
- 2 How Climate Models Gain and Exercise Authority / Mike Hulme Hulme, Mike 30
- 3 Certain Figures: Modelling Nature among Environmental Experts in Coastal Tamil Nadu / Frida Hastrup Hastrup, Frida 45
- 4 Enacting Cyclones: The Mixed Response to Climate Change in the Cook Islands / Cecilie Rubow Rubow, Cecilie 57
- 5 Anticipation on Thin Ice: Diagrammatic Reasoning in the High Arctic / Kirsten Hastrup Hastrup, Kirsten 77
- 6 Deciding the Future in the Land of Snow: Tibet as an Arena for Conflicting Forms of Knowledge and Policy / Hildegard Diemberger Diemberger, Hildegard 100
- 7 Scaling Climate: The Politics of Anticipation / Ásdís Jónsdóttir Jónsdóttir, Ásdís 128
- 8 Emancipating Nature: What the Flood Apprentice Learned from a Modelling Tutorial / Anders Kristian Munk Munk, Anders Kristian 144
- 9 Modelling Ice: A Field Diary of Anticipation on the Greenland Ice Sheet / Martin Skrydstrup Skrydstrup, Martin 163
- 10 Predictability in Question: On Climate Modelling in Physics / Peter D. Ditlevsen Ditlevsen, Peter D. 183
- 11 Constructing Evidence and Trust: How Did Climate Scientists' Confidence in Their Models and Simulations Emerge? / Matthias Heymann Heymann, Matthias 203
- 12 Afterword: Reopening the Book of Nature(s) / Martin Skrydstrup Skrydstrup, Martin 225.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 041562858X
- 9780415628587
- OCLC:
- 778424971
- Publisher Number:
- 99950869105
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