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UNINA9910265230703321 |
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Autore |
Whitehead Mark <1975-> |
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Titolo |
State, science and the skies : governmentalities of the British atmosphere / / Mark Whitehead |
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Chichester, United Kingdom ; ; Malden, MA : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2009 |
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1-4443-0787-8 |
1-4443-9986-1 |
1-282-33161-2 |
9786612331619 |
1-4443-0788-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (293 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Air - Pollution - Government policy - Great Britain |
Air quality - Government policy - Great Britain |
Science and state - Great Britain |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : space, history and the governing of air pollution -- Historical geographies of science and government : exploring the apparatuses of atmospheric knowledge production -- Science, sight and the optics of air government -- Governing air conduct : exhibition, examination and the cultivation of the atmospheric self -- Instrumentation and the sites of atmospheric monitoring -- A national census of the air : spatial science, calculation and the geo-coding of the atmosphere -- Automating the air : atmospheric simulations and digital beings -- Environmental governmentalities and the ecological coding of the British atmosphere -- Conclusion : learning like a state in an age of atmospheric change. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Utilizing environmental archival materials from the UK, State, Science and the Skies presents a groundbreaking historical account of the development of a state science of atmospheric pollution. Offers the most extensive historical and geographical account of atmospheric government and pollution in Britain, available todayPresents archival |
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