Climate in motion : science, empire, and the problem of scale /
Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth?s climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary. Climate in Motion shows that this multiscalar, multicausal framework emerged well before computers and satel...
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Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2018.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Climate and empire
- Part I: Unity in diversity. The Habsburgs and the collection of nature
- The Austrian idea
- The imperial-royal scientist
- The dual task
- The scales of empire. The face of the empire
- The invention of climatography
- The power of local differences
- Planetary disturbances
- The work of scaling. The forest-climate question
- The floral archive
- Landscapes of desire
- Conclusion: After empire.