Environmental Futures

<p>Concerns about the exploitation of limited resources, optimum development trajectories, and climate change draw attention to the temporal horizons of our environment – <i>Environmental Futures </i>is a curated collection of essays that explores different ways of knowing the future and how these futures shape contemporary social worlds. <br /><br /></p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Approaches prognosis as a cultural, political, and material process</li> <li>Reveals the ways in which authority and expertise may be reinforced, circumscribed, or contested in the process of making a prediction and its aftermath</li> <li>Offers novel insights on how and why futures come to be significant in the present</li> </ul>