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Continent in Dust : Experiments in a Chinese Weather System /
In China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind. Continent in Dust offers an anthropol...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Apparatus A. Nightwind
- Introduction: Earthly Interphases
- Part I. Wind-Sand
- Apparatus B. The Wind Tunnel
- 1. Machine Sky
- Apparatus C. A Sheet of Loose Sand
- 2. Groundwork
- Apparatus D. Five Thousand Years
- 3. Holding Patterns
- Part II. Fine Particulate Matter
- 4. Particulate Exposures
- Apparatus E. Wildfires
- 5. City of Chambers
- Part III. Continent in Dust
- Apparatus F. A Sinocene
- 6. Downwinds
- Apparatus G. Monsters
- Notes
- References
- Index