Engineering vulnerability : in pursuit of climate adaptation /

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"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 le...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vaughn, Sarah E., 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Guyana.
Climate change mitigation > Guyana.
Environmental education > Guyana.
Floods > Guyana.
Climat > Changements > Guyana.
Climat > Changements > Atténuation > Guyana.
Inondations > Guyana.
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General.
Climate change mitigation.
Climatic changes.
Ecology.
Environmental education.
Floods.
Guyana > Environmental conditions.
Guyana > Conditions environnementales.
Guyana.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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