Changing the atmosphere : expert knowledge and environmental governance
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
Aufsatzsammlung
xii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780262133876, 9780262632195, 0262133873, 0262632195
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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