Changing the atmosphere : expert knowledge and environmental governance /

In recent years, Earth systems science has advanced rapidly, helping to transform climate change and other planetary risks into major political issues. Changing the Atmosphere strengthens our understanding of this important link between expert knowledge and environmental governance. In so doing, it...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Miller, Clark A., Edwards, Paul N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
Colección:Politics, science, and the environment.
Temas:
Environmental management.
Global environmental change.
Climatic changes.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Globalization.
Environnement > Gestion.
Changement global (Environnement)
Climat > Changements.
Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature.
Mondialisation.
environmental control.
climate change.
globalism.
NATURE > Weather.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Meteorology & Climatology.
Climatic changes
Environmental management
Global environmental change
Globalization
Nature > Effect of human beings on
ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Representing the global atmosphere: computer models, data, and knowledge about climate change / Paul N. Edwards
  • Why atmospheric modeling is good science / Stephen D. Norton and Frederick Suppe
  • Epistemic lifestyles in climate change modeling / Simon Shackley
  • The rise and fall of weather modification: changes in American attitudes toward technology, nature, and society / Chunglin Kwa
  • Scientific internationalism in American foreign policy: the case of meteorology, 1947-1958 / Clark A. Miller
  • Self-governance and peer review in science-for-policy: the case of the IPCC second amendment report / Paul N. Edwards and Stephen H. Schneider
  • Challenges in the application of science to global affairs: contingency, trust, and moral order / Clark A. Miller
  • Climate change and global environment justice / Dale Jamieson
  • Image and imagination: the formation of global environmental consciousness / Sheila Jasanoff.

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