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Changing the Atmosphere : Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance.

Contributor(s): Series: Politics, science, and the environmentPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001Description: xii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262133873
  • 9780262133876
  • 0262632195
  • 9780262632195
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 551.6 21
LOC classification:
  • GE300 .C48 2001
Other classification:
  • 43.47
  • RB 10438
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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. -- Amazon.com.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab GE300 .C48 2001 1 Available 50583020015065
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-370) and index.

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.

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. -- Amazon.com.

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