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UNINA9910717462903321 |
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Biomedical research : HHS has not yet used new authorities to improve recruitment and retention of scientists / / Mary Denigan-Macauley |
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Washington, DC : , : U.S. Government Accountability Office, , 2020 |
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1 online resource (4 pages) |
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Medical scientists - United States |
Biology - Research - United States |
Medicine - Research - United States |
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Monografia |
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"GAO-20-531R." |
"May 8, 2020." |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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UNINA9910786083103321 |
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Fava Sergio |
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Environmental apocalypse in science and art : designing nightmares / / Sergio Fava |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-283-94225-9 |
0-203-09471-9 |
1-136-20894-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (245 p.) |
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Routledge studies in social and political thought ; ; 79 |
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Climatic changes - History |
Climatic changes - Forecasting |
Environmental disasters - History |
Environmental disasters - Forecasting |
Environmental risk assessment |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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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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Cover; Environmental Apocalypse in Science and Art: Designing Nightmares; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Boxes; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; 1 Deadly Weather: Narratives of Nature and Agency During the Little Ice Age; 2 Counting the Days: John Napier's Exegesis and Mathematics; 3 Drawing the End: Inigo Jones' Banqueting House; 4 Assembling the Worldmachine: Mathematical Modelling of Climate Change; 5 Imagining Futures: The Special Report on Emission Scenarios; 6 Creating One Future: The Doomsday Vault; 7 Reclaiming Futures: Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project; Notes |
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At a time when it is clear that climate change adaptation and mitigation are failing, this book examines how our assumptions about (valid and usable) knowledge are preventing effective climate action. Through a cross-disciplinary, empirically-based analysis of climate science and policy, the book situates the failures of climate policy in the cultural history of prediction and its interfaces with policy. Fava calls into question the current interfaces between scientific research and climate |
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policy by tracing multiple connections between modelling, epistemology, politics, food security, reli |
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