Environmental Futures

By Jessica Barnes

Concerns about the exploitation of limited resources, optimum development trajectories, and climate change draw attention to the temporal horizons of our environment - Environmental Futures is a curated collection of essays that explores different ways of knowing the future and how these futures shape contemporary social worlds. Includes a range of detailed case studies, from ice melting in Antarctica to coal mining in Bangladesh, flooding in Colombia to climate modelling in Egypt Approaches prognosis as a cultural, political, and material process Reveals the ways in which authority and expertise may be reinforced, circumscribed, or contested in the process of making a prediction and its aftermath Offers novel insights on how and why futures come to be significant in the present

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1119278325
• ISBN13: 9781119278320
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"