Description
Book SynopsisAt a time when it is clear that climate change adaptation and mitigation are failing, this book examines how our assumptions about (valid and usable) knowledge are preventing effective climate action. Through a cross-disciplinary, empirically-based analysis of climate science and policy, the book situates the failures of climate policy in the cultural history of prediction and its interfaces with policy.
Fava calls into question the current interfaces between scientific research and climate policy by tracing multiple connections between modelling, epistemology, politics, food security, religion, art, and the apocalyptic. Demonstrating how the current domination of climate policy by models and scenarios is part of the problem, the book examines how artistic practices are a critical location to ask questions differently, rethink environmental futures, and activate social change. The analysis starts with another moment of climatic change in recent western history: the overlap of the Li
Table of Contents
Introduction. 1. Deadly Weather: Narratives of Nature and Agency During the Little Ice Age 2. Counting the Days: John Napier’s Exegesis and Mathematics 3. Drawing the End: Inigo Jones’s Banqueting House 4. Assembling the Worldmachine: Mathematical Modelling of Climate Change 5. Imagining Futures: The Special Report on Emission Scenarios 6. Creating One Future: The Doomsday Vault 7. Reclaiming Futures: Olafur Eliasson’s Weather Project
