عنوان

Changing the atmosphere :

(Number (ISBN

0262279819

(Number (ISBN

9780262279819

Erroneous ISBN

0262133873

Erroneous ISBN

0262632195

Title Proper

Changing the atmosphere :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

expert knowledge and environmental governance /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Clark A. Miller and Paul N. Edwards.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Mass. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

MIT Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2001.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xii, 385 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations.

Series Title

Politics, science, and the environment

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-370) and index.

Text of Note

Representing the global atmosphere: computer models, data, and knowledge about climate change / Paul N. Edwards -- Why atmospheric modeling is good science / Stephen D. Norton and Frederick Suppe -- Epistemic lifestyles in climate change modeling / Simon Shackley -- The rise and fall of weather modification: changes in American attitudes toward technology, nature, and society / Chunglin Kwa -- Scientific internationalism in American foreign policy: the case of meteorology, 1947-1958 / Clark A. Miller -- Self-governance and peer review in science-for-policy: the case of the IPCC second amendment report / Paul N. Edwards and Stephen H. Schneider -- Challenges in the application of science to global affairs: contingency, trust, and moral order / Clark A. Miller -- Climate change and global environment justice / Dale Jamieson -- Image and imagination: the formation of global environmental consciousness / Sheila Jasanoff.

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Text of Note

In recent years, Earth systems science has advanced rapidly, helping to transform climate change and other planetary risks into major political issues. Changing the Atmosphere strengthens our understanding of this important link between expert knowledge and environmental governance. In so doing, it illustrates how the emerging field of science and technology studies can inform our understanding of the human dimensions of global environmental change. Incorporating historical, sociological, and philosophical approaches, Changing the Atmosphere presents detailed empirical studies of climate science and its uptake into public policy. Topics include the scientific, political, and social processes involved in the creation of scientific knowledge about climate change; the historical and contemporary role of expert knowledge in creating and perpetuating policy concern about climate change; and the place of science in institutions of global environmental governance such as the World Meteorological Organization, the Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Together, the essays demonstrate fundamental connections between the science and politics of planet Earth. In the struggle to create sustainable forms of environmental governance, they indicate, a necessary first step is to understand how communities achieve credible, authoritative representations of nature.ContributorsPaul N. Edwards, Dale Jamieson, Sheila Jasanoff, Chunglin Kwa, Clark Miller, Stephen D. Norton, Stephen H. Schneider, Simon Shackley, Frederick Suppe

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

MIT Press

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

MIT Press

Stock Number

1789

Stock Number

9780262279819

Title

Changing the atmosphere.

International Standard Book Number

0262632195

Climatic changes.

Environmental management.

Global environmental change.

Globalization.

Nature-- Effect of human beings on.

Climatic changes.

Environmental management.

Global environmental change.

Globalization.

Nature-- Effect of human beings on.

NATURE-- Weather.

SCIENCE-- Earth Sciences-- Meteorology & Climatology.

NAT-- 036000

SCI-- 042000

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Edition

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Book number

Edwards, Paul N.

Miller, Clark A.

Date of Transaction

20200822104857.0

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[Book]

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