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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.

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

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/05/2016
      ISBN13: 9781119278320, 978-1119278320
      ISBN10: 1119278325
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

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

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