Peder Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3757147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peder Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peder |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0019-8251 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is a landmark collection drawing together the history of the Arctic and Antarctica from the earliest times to the present. Structured as a series of thematic chapters, an international team of scholars offer a range of perspectives from environmental history, the history of science and exploration, cultural history, and the more traditional approaches of political, social, economic, and imperial history.…
Does the science criterion rest on thin ice
This paper explores whether a central plank of the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) - the science criterion - is threatened by anthropogenic climate change. It begins by situating the origins of the ATS within the context of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), and the privileged position that science obtained within first the IGY and later the ATS. This extends to science functioning as the dominant currency through which states may ascend to …
The Promise of Kiruna’s Iron Ore in the Swedish Imagination, c. 1901–1915
Iron ore mining in the Norrbotten region of Sweden began in the early years of the twentieth century as a commercially uncertain and even dangerous proposition. But even before it began to generate profits, public debate began over the appropriate role of the state and of private capital (including foreign investors). This included whether iron ore should be exported for profit or retained for future processing in Sweden—even though the technolog…
Is there anything natural about the polar
Are similarities of temperature, snow and ice cover, and (certain) marine mammals sufficient to warrant both polar regions being considered a single object of study or governance? We argue that their treatment as a unit is an invitation to examine the motivations behind the choice to be polar rather than Arctic or Antarctic. For individuals such as James Clerk Ross or Roald Amundsen, logistical requirements and analogous goals facilitated careers…
A Forecasting Classic in Hindsight
Previous articleNext article FreeSecond Look: Robert Marc Friedman, Appropriating the WeatherA Forecasting Classic in HindsightPeder RobertsPeder Roberts Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreI begin this essay with a confession regarding the first time I laid eyes on Appropriating the Weather. …
Science as national belonging
This article examines how science has been employed to establish, maintain, and contest senses of belonging on Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago administered by Norway since 1925 under an international treaty. Our central argument is that the process of constructing Svalbard as a space belonging to Norway has long been intertwined with the processes of describing and representing the archipelago and that participating in those processes has also pe…
The Surveillance Imperative
Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the ""surveillance imperative, "" this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War
Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750–1920
Merchants of Doubt
Reviewed by: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming Peder Roberts (bio) Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. By Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. Pp. ii+356. $27. Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway have produced a powerful book that starkly reveals just what its tit…
British Imperialism in Cyprus, 1878–1915
Andrekos Varnava, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2009, xiii+321 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7190-7903-0 The oft-repeated description of the Mediterranean as a ‘British lake’ during
Swedes in the South
Science as national belonging
This article examines how science has been employed to establish, maintain, and contest senses of belonging on Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago administered by Norway since 1925 under an international treaty. Our central argument is that the process of constructing Svalbard as a space belonging to Norway has long been intertwined with the processes of describing and representing the archipelago and that participating in those processes has also pe…
Does the science criterion rest on thin ice
This paper explores whether a central plank of the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) - the science criterion - is threatened by anthropogenic climate change. It begins by situating the origins of the ATS within the context of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), and the privileged position that science obtained within first the IGY and later the ATS. This extends to science functioning as the dominant currency through which states may ascend to …
Swedes in the South
British Imperialism in Cyprus, 1878–1915
Andrekos Varnava, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2009, xiii+321 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7190-7903-0 The oft-repeated description of the Mediterranean as a ‘British lake’ during
Merchants of Doubt
Reviewed by: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming Peder Roberts (bio) Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. By Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. Pp. ii+356. $27. Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway have produced a powerful book that starkly reveals just what its tit…
The Surveillance Imperative
Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the ""surveillance imperative, "" this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War
Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750–1920
Science as national belonging
This article examines how science has been employed to establish, maintain, and contest senses of belonging on Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago administered by Norway since 1925 under an international treaty. Our central argument is that the process of constructing Svalbard as a space belonging to Norway has long been intertwined with the processes of describing and representing the archipelago and that participating in those processes has also pe…
A Forecasting Classic in Hindsight
Previous articleNext article FreeSecond Look: Robert Marc Friedman, Appropriating the WeatherA Forecasting Classic in HindsightPeder RobertsPeder Roberts Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreI begin this essay with a confession regarding the first time I laid eyes on Appropriating the Weather. …
Is there anything natural about the polar
Are similarities of temperature, snow and ice cover, and (certain) marine mammals sufficient to warrant both polar regions being considered a single object of study or governance? We argue that their treatment as a unit is an invitation to examine the motivations behind the choice to be polar rather than Arctic or Antarctic. For individuals such as James Clerk Ross or Roald Amundsen, logistical requirements and analogous goals facilitated careers…
The Promise of Kiruna’s Iron Ore in the Swedish Imagination, c. 1901–1915
Iron ore mining in the Norrbotten region of Sweden began in the early years of the twentieth century as a commercially uncertain and even dangerous proposition. But even before it began to generate profits, public debate began over the appropriate role of the state and of private capital (including foreign investors). This included whether iron ore should be exported for profit or retained for future processing in Sweden—even though the technolog…
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is a landmark collection drawing together the history of the Arctic and Antarctica from the earliest times to the present. Structured as a series of thematic chapters, an international team of scholars offer a range of perspectives from environmental history, the history of science and exploration, cultural history, and the more traditional approaches of political, social, economic, and imperial history.…
Does the science criterion rest on thin ice
This paper explores whether a central plank of the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) - the science criterion - is threatened by anthropogenic climate change. It begins by situating the origins of the ATS within the context of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), and the privileged position that science obtained within first the IGY and later the ATS. This extends to science functioning as the dominant currency through which states may ascend to …
Political science (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Polar Research and Ecology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Geology (3 works) · Oceanography (3 works)