Description
Book SynopsisConcerns 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.
Table of Contents
- Prognosis: visions of environmental futures (Andrew S. Mathews and Jessica Barnes)
- Sensing the ice: field science, models, and expert intimacy with knowledge (Jessica O’Reilly)
- Uncertainty in the signal: modelling Egypt’s water futures (Jessica Barnes)
- Subsoil abundance and surface absence: a junior mining company and its performance of prognosis in Northwestern Ecuador (David Kneas)
- Mines and signs: resource and political futures in Bangladesh (Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury)
- Chronicle of a disaster foretold: scientific risk assessment, public participation, and the politics of imperilment in Bristol Bay, Alaska (Karen Hébert)
- A doubtful hope: resource affect in a future oil economy (Gisa Weszkalnys)
- Liquid Oman: oil, water, and causality in Southern Arabia (Mandana Limbert)
- Prognosis past: the temporal politics of disaster in Colombia (Austin Zeiderman)
- Claiming futures (Elizabeth Ferry)
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