Changing the Atmosphere

Changing the Atmosphere is essential reading for anyone interested in environmental issues, climate change and global warming in particular. Inspired by a science-studies approach, it treats scientific knowledge, and the people and institutions that produce it, not as value-neutral, consensually established inputs to policy debates, but rather as key components actually embedded in the formulation and legitimation of such debates and their outcomes. The essays offer "detailed, empirically grounded case studies of settings in which people make and interpret knowledge about the earth's climate and link that knowledge to political decisions" (p. 15). As such they are not merely intended as an "academic" exercise. They are fine examples of how intellectuals can be politically engaged without sacrificing analytical rigor, precision of language, or clarity of exposition

Atmosphere (unit) · CLARITY · Climate change · Corporate governance · Economics · Exposition (narrative) · Knowledge management · Knowledge production · Legitimation · Management · Meteorology · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Law · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance