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Engineering vulnerability : in pursuit of climate adaptation / Sarah E. Vaughn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vaughn, Sarah E., 1983- author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Guyana.
- Climatic changes.
- Climate change mitigation--Guyana.
- Climate change mitigation.
- Environmental education--Guyana.
- Environmental education.
- Floods--Guyana.
- Floods.
- Guyana--Environmental conditions.
- Guyana.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 256 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- data file
- Summary:
- "Engineering Vulnerability is an ethnography of climate adaptation in Guyana, where different portions of the population experience and understand environmental threats differently. Sarah E. Vaughn focuses on the collaborations between state experts and citizens following the 2005 flood that left 75 percent of the country's population stranded in water, and highlights how government engineers and local villagers each had knowledge that was formed through their racial positioning in the country. While climate adaptation is often seen as primarily a state project, especially in relation to disaster, Vaughn shows that it cannot be understood apart from the multiple histories and relations to the environment that differently position citizens and experts who must work together in the face of climate vulnerability"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- "Where Would I Go? There Was No Place with No Water"
- Disaster Evidence
- The Racial Politics of Settlers
- Engineering, Archives, and Experts
- Compensation and Resettlement
- Love Stories
- Accountability and the Militarization of Technoscience
- The Ordinary
- Materializing Race and Climate Change.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Vaughn, Sarah E., 1983- Engineering vulnerability.
- ISBN:
- 9781478022725
- 1478022728
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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