The social life of climate change models [electronic resource] : anticipating nature / edited by Kirsten Hastrup and Martin Skrydstrup.

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Series: Routledge studies in anthropology ; 8.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2013.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 240 p. : ill., mapsISBN:

9780203093870

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1. Anticipating nature : the productive uncertainty of climate models / Kirsten Hastrup -- 2. How climate models gain and exercise authority / Mike Hulme -- 3. Certain figures : modelling nature among environmental experts in coastal Tamil Nadu / Frida Hastrup -- 4. Enacting cyclones : the mixed response to climate change in the Cook Islands / Cecilie Rubow -- 5. Anticipation on thin ice : diagrammatic reasoning in the high arctic / Kirsten Hastrup -- 6. Deciding the future in the land of snow : Tibet as an arena for conflicting forms of knowledge and policy / Hildegard Diemberger -- 7. Scaling climate : the politics of anticipation / Ásdís Jónsdóttir -- 8. Emancipating nature : what the flood apprentice learned from a modelling tutorial / Anders Kristian Munk -- 9. Modelling ice : a field diary of anticipation on the Greenland ice sheet / Martin Skrydstrup -- 10. Predictability in question : on climate modelling in physics / Peter D. Ditlevsen -- 11. Constructing evidence and trust : how did climate scientists' confidence in their models and simulations emerge? / Matthias Heymann -- 12. Afterword : reopening the book of nature(s) / Martin Skrydstrup.

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