{"product_id":"environmental-futures-9781119278320","title":"Environmental Futures","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jessica Barnes\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcerns about the exploitation of limited resources, optimum development trajectories, and climate change draw attention to the temporal horizons of our environment - \u003ci\u003eEnvironmental Futures \u003c\/i\u003eis a curated collection of essays that explores different ways of knowing the future and how these futures shape contemporary social worlds. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  *Includes a range of detailed case studies, from ice melting in Antarctica to coal mining in Bangladesh, flooding in Colombia to climate modelling in Egypt *Approaches prognosis as a cultural, political, and material process *Reveals the ways in which authority and expertise may be reinforced, circumscribed, or contested in the process of making a prediction and its aftermath *Offers novel insights on how and why futures come to be significant in the present","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45203572261015,"sku":"9781119278320","price":2220.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781119278320.webp?v=1769208705","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/environmental-futures-9781119278320","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}