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Deep time reckoning : how future thinking can help earth now / Vincent Ialenti ; foreword by Marcia Bjornerud.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ialenti, Vincent, author.
- Series:
- One planet.
- One planet
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Radioactive waste disposal in the ground--Finland.
- Radioactive waste disposal in the ground.
- Radioactive waste repositories--Finland.
- Radioactive waste repositories.
- Environmental policy--Finland.
- Environmental policy.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--Forecasting.
- Nature.
- Global environmental change--Forecasting.
- Global environmental change.
- Human ecology.
- Social planning.
- Geology, Stratigraphic--Anthropocene.
- Geology, Stratigraphic.
- Time--Social aspects.
- Time.
- Finland--Environmental conditions--21st century.
- Finland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "How Finland's nuclear waste experts discern far future Earths, and what the rest of us non-Finns and non-experts can learn from them"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Embracing deep time learning
- How to ride analogies across deep time
- How far future worlds sprout from simple repeating patterns
- How to zoom in and out on deep time from different angles
- How to face deep time expertise's mortality
- Conclusion: Escaping shallow time discipline.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-35936-7
- 0-262-35935-9
- OCLC:
- 1190715513
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