The Social Life of Climate Change Models Anticipating Nature [Hardcover]

Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only comparable but also deeply entangled. Through analysis of predictive practices in a diversity of regions affected by climate change  including coastal India, the Cook Islands, Tibet, and the High Arctic, and various domains of scientific expertise and policy making such as ice core drilling, flood risk modelling, and coastal adaptation  the book shows how all attempts at modelling natures course are deeply social, and how current research in climate contributes to a rethinking of nature as a multiplicity of modalities that impact social life.

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  ?sd?s J?nsd?ttir  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 SkrydstruplsP