{"product_id":"environmental-futures-paperback-softback-9781119278320","title":"Environmental Futures (Paperback \/ softback) 9781119278320","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEnvironmental Futures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJessica Barnes (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781119278320, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 May 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e212 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 16.8 x 0.8 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcerns about the exploitation of limited resources, optimum development trajectories, and climate change draw attention to the temporal horizons of our environment - \u003ci\u003eEnvironmental Futures \u003c\/i\u003eis a curated collection of essays that explores different ways of knowing the future and how these futures shape contemporary social worlds. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a range of detailed case studies, from ice melting in Antarctica to coal mining in Bangladesh, flooding in Colombia to climate modelling in Egypt\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eApproaches prognosis as a cultural, political, and material process\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReveals the ways in which authority and expertise may be reinforced, circumscribed, or contested in the process of making a prediction and its aftermath\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers novel insights on how and why futures come to be significant in the present\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003col\u003e \u003cli\u003ePrognosis: visions of environmental futures (Andrew S. Mathews and Jessica Barnes)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSensing the ice: field science, models, and expert intimacy with knowledge (Jessica O’Reilly)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUncertainty in the signal: modelling Egypt’s water futures (Jessica Barnes)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSubsoil abundance and surface absence: a junior mining company and its performance of prognosis in Northwestern Ecuador (David Kneas)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMines and signs: resource and political futures in Bangladesh (Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChronicle of a disaster foretold: scientific risk assessment, public participation, and the politics of imperilment in Bristol Bay, Alaska (Karen Hébert)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA doubtful hope: resource affect in a future oil economy (Gisa Weszkalnys)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLiquid Oman: oil, water, and causality in Southern Arabia (Mandana Limbert)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePrognosis past: the temporal politics of disaster in Colombia (Austin Zeiderman)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eClaiming futures (Elizabeth Ferry)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ol\u003e          Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Archaeology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Archaeology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Archaeology%20%5BHD%5D%22\"\u003eHD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52428548079896,"sku":"9781119278320","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781119278320.jpg?v=1784679455","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/environmental-futures-paperback-softback-9781119278320","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}