03516oam 2200733I 450 991078608310332120230803025028.01-283-94225-90-203-09471-91-136-20894-110.4324/9780203094716 (CKB)2670000000315508(EBL)1108564(OCoLC)823719054(SSID)ssj0000803932(PQKBManifestationID)11438470(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803932(PQKBWorkID)10813874(PQKB)10690355(MiAaPQ)EBC1108564(Au-PeEL)EBL1108564(CaPaEBR)ebr10643568(CaONFJC)MIL425475(OCoLC)823896919(FINmELB)ELB135222(EXLCZ)99267000000031550820180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEnvironmental apocalypse in science and art designing nightmares /Sergio FavaNew York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (245 p.)Routledge studies in social and political thought ;79Routledge studies in social and political thought ;79Description based upon print version of record.1-138-92068-1 0-415-63401-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; NotesBibliographyIndexAt 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 policy by tracing multiple connections between modelling, epistemology, politics, food security, reliRoutledge Studies in Social and Political ThoughtClimatic changesHistoryClimatic changesForecastingEnvironmental disastersHistoryEnvironmental disastersForecastingEnvironmental risk assessmentClimatic changesHistory.Climatic changesForecasting.Environmental disastersHistory.Environmental disastersForecasting.Environmental risk assessment.363.34/92Fava Sergio.1496660MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786083103321Environmental apocalypse in science and art3721460UNINA