Governing Climate

Governing Climate

How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future

Baker, Zeke

University of California Press

10/2024

368

Dura

9780520401297

15 a 20 dias

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Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Governing Climate in the Past, Present, and Future

Part I. Climate Change and the Coproduction of Meteorological and Social Order

1. Governing Climate in Early America, 1770-1840
2. Meteorological Frontiers: Climate Knowledge, Territory, and State Formation, 1800-1850

Part II. Stabilizing Climate, Economizing Weather

3. Climate Does Not Change: Agricultural Capitalism,Climatology, and the Stabilization of Climate, 1850-1920
4. Economic Rationalization of Weather:Risk, Prediction, and "Normal" Weather, 1870-1930

Part III. Climate Crisis and the Politics of Climate Expertise

5. The Climate State and the Origins of a Climate Science Field, 1930-1980s
6. Governing Climate Futures: Environmental Security and Security Technologies
7. Future Struggles: Climate Security Experts and the Depoliticization of the Climate Future

Conclusion: Legible Alternatives? Remaking
Climate, Rethinking Climatic Stability

Notes
References
Index
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