Author: Nikolay T. ZikeevPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Weather Modification in the Soviet Union, 1945-1966
Author: Nikolay T. ZikeevPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Weather Modification in the Soviet Union, 1945-1966
Author: Nikolay T. ZikeevGeoengineering, the Anthropocene and the End of Nature
Author: Jeremy BaskinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030173593
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This book takes a critical look at solar geoengineering as an acceptable means for addressing climate change. Baskin explores the assumptions and imaginaries which animate ‘engineering the climate’ and discusses why this climate solution is so controversial. The book explains geoengineering’s past, its revival in the mid-2000s, and its future prospects including its shadow presence in the Paris climate accord. The main focus however is on dissecting solar geoengineering today – its rationales, underpinning knowledge, relationship to power, and the stance towards nature which accompanies it. Baskin explores three competing imaginaries associated with geoengineering: an Imperial imaginary, an oppositional Un-Natural imaginary, and a conspiratorial Chemtrail imaginary. He seeks to explain why solar geoengineering has struggled to gain approval and why resistance to it persists, despite the support of several powerful actors. He provocatively suggests that reconceptualising our present as the Anthropocene might unwittingly facilitate the normalisation of geoengineering by providing a sustaining socio-technical imaginary. This book is essential reading for those interested in climate policy, political ecology, and science & technology studies.
Imagining Climate Engineering
Author: Jeroen OomenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000380092
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This book highlights the increasing attention for climate engineering, a set of speculative technologies aimed to counter global warming. What is the future of the global climate? And who gets to decide—or even design—this future? Imagining Climate Engineering explores how and why climate engineering became a potential approach to anthropogenic climate change. Specifically, it showcases how views on the future of climate change and climate engineering evolved by addressing the ways in which climate engineers view its respective physical, political, and moral domains. Tracing the intellectual and political history of dreams to control the weather and climate as well as the discovery of climate change, Jeroen Oomen examines the imaginative parameters within which contemporary climate engineering research takes place. Introducing the analytical metaphor ‘ways of seeing’ to describe explicit or implicit visions, understandings, and foci that facilitate a particular understanding of what is at stake, Imagining Climate Engineering shows how visions on the knowability of climate tie into moral and political convictions about the possibility and desirability of engineering the climate. Marrying science and technology studies and the environmental humanities, Oomen provides crucial insights for the future of the climate change debate for scholars and students.
Weather Modification
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on CommercePublisher:
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Category : Weather control
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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Bibliographic Guide to Soviet and East European Studies
Author: Information Bulletin
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, Cumulative Index
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1504
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FAR Horizons
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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