Immeasurable Weather

Author : Sara J. Grossman
Publisher : Elements
ISBN 13 : 9781478025023
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immeasurable Weather written by Sara J. Grossman and published by Elements. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara J. Grossman explores how weather data collection has been central to the larger project of settler colonialism in the United States between 1820 and the present.

Author : Sara J. Grossman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478027037
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immeasurable Weather written by Sara J. Grossman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Immeasurable Weather Sara J. Grossman explores how environmental data collection has been central to the larger project of settler colonialism in the United States. She draws on an extensive archive of historical and meteorological data spanning two centuries to show how American scientific institutions used information about the weather to establish and reinforce the foundations of a white patriarchal settler society. Grossman outlines the relationship between climate data and state power in key moments in the history of American weather science, from the nineteenth-century public data-gathering practices of settler farmers and teachers and the automation of weather data during the Dust Bowl to the role of meteorological satellites in data science’s integration into the militarized state. Throughout, Grossman shows that weather science reproduced the natural world as something to be measured, owned, and exploited. This data gathering, she contends, gave coherence to a national weather project and to a notion of the nation itself, demonstrating that weather science’s impact cannot be reduced to a set of quantifiable phenomena.

Author : Judith Curry
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785278185
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Uncertainty and Risk written by Judith Curry and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows how we can break this gridlock. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are facing and how we can respond to these challenges. Understanding the deep uncertainty surrounding the climate change problem helps us to better assess the risks. This book shows how uncertainty and disagreement can be part of the decision-making process. It provides a road map for formulating pragmatic solutions. Climate Uncertainty and Risk is essential reading for those concerned about the environment, professionals dealing with climate change and our national leaders.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coconino, Kaibab, and Prescott National Forests (N.F.), Integrated Treatment of Noxious and Invasive Weeds written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004356827
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe is an account of Europe’s share in the making of global warming, which considers the past and future of climate-society interactions.

Author : Miriam Haritz
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9041142703
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Inconvenient Deliberation written by Miriam Haritz and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is increasing evidence to suggest that adaptation to the inevitable is as relevant to climate change policymaking as mitigation efforts. Both mitigation and adaptation, as well as the unavoidable damage occurring both now and that is predicted to occur, all involve costs at the expense of diverse climate change victims. The allocation of responsibilities—implicit in terms of the burden-sharing mechanisms that currently exist in public and private governance—demands recourse under liability law, especially as it has become clear that most companies will only start reducing emissions if verifiable costs of the economic consequences of climate change, including the likelihood of liability, outweigh the costs of taking precautionary measures. This vitally important book asks: Can the precautionary principle make uncertainty judiciable in the context of liability for the consequences of climate change, and, if so, to what extent? Drawing on the full range of pertinent existing literature and case law, the author examines the precautionary principle both in terms of its content and application and in the context of liability law. She analyses the indirect means offered by existing legislation being used by environmental groups and affected individuals before the courts to challenge both companies and regulators as responsible agents of climate change damage. In the process of responding to its fundamental question, the analysis explores such further questions as the following: What is the role of the precautionary principle in resolving uncertainty in scientific risk assessment when faced with inconclusive evidence, and how does it affect decision-making, particularly in the regulatory choices concerning climate change? To this end, what is the concrete content of the precautionary principle? How does liability law generally handle scientific uncertainty? What different types of liability exist, and how are they equipped to handle a climate change liability claim? What type of liability is best suited for precautionary measures or a lack thereof? Can the application of the precautionary principle make a difference to the outcomes of climate change liability claims? In order to draw conclusions concerning the legal uncertainties posed by climate change, the author draws examples from national legislations representative of the various legal systems, as well as from existing treaties. General rules and obligations relevant to climate change liability are examined, and a selection of actual legal cases from around the world concerning climate change, be it actual liability claims or litigation indirectly relevant to a claim, is also presented. As an overview of the different legal challenges created by climate change liability, this book is without peer. The practical meaning and impact of these findings for lawyers (whether corporate or activist), for regulators and policymakers, and for decision-makers in governmental bodies and private companies is immeasurable.

Author : W. J. Maunder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000692256
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Value of the Weather written by W. J. Maunder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1970, this book brings together the most significant and pertinent associations between man’s economic and social activities, and the variations in the atmospheric environment. Particular emphasis is placed on economic activities and the weather, economic analysis of weather and the benefits and costs of weather knowledge. In addition, some of the sociological, physiological, political, planning and legal aspects of atmospheric resources are discussed.

Author : Norman Bogner
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1429970979
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deadliest Art written by Norman Bogner and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Danton, the brilliant investigator-hero of To Die in Provence, is back with a vengeance. Badly wounded the summer before, he is getting ready to marry Jennifer Bowen, the beautiful American art professor who saved his life. But then a girl's disfigured body washes ashore on the beach of a resort near Aix-en-Provence, and Danton finds himself forced to take charge of a harrowing investigation. From the medieval city of Bruges in Belgium through the glorious sun-dappled towns of Provence, Danton chases a depraved madman, desperate to catch him before he strikes again. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Hilda P. Koster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567675165
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and Climate Change written by Hilda P. Koster and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and Climate Change entails a wide-ranging conversation between Christian theology and various other discourses on climate change. Given the far-reaching complicity of "North Atlantic Christianity" in anthropogenic climate change, the question is whether it can still collaborate with and contribute to ongoing mitigation and adaptation efforts. The main essays in this volume are written by leading scholars from within North Atlantic Christianity and addressed primarily to readers in the same context; these essays are critically engaged by respondents situated in other geographic regions, minority communities, non-Christian traditions, or non-theological disciplines. Structured in seven main parts, the handbook explores: 1) the need for collaboration with disciplines outside of Christian theology to address climate change; 2) the need to find common moral ground for such collaboration; 3) the difficulties posed by collaborating with other Christian traditions from within; 4) the questions that emerge from such collaboration for understanding the story of God's work; and 5) God's identity and character; 6) the implications of such collaboration for ecclesial praxis; and 7) concluding reflections examining whether this volume does justice to issues of race, gender, class, other animals, religious diversity, geographical divides and carbon mitigation. This rich ecumenical, cross-cultural conversation provides a comprehensive and in-depth engagement with the theological and moral challenges raised by anthropogenic climate change.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1966 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Government Matters written by United States. Congress. House. Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: