Environmental apocalypse in science and art [electronic resource] : designing nightmares / Sergio Fava.

By: Fava, SergioMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 79.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2013. Description: xviii, 226 p. : illISBN: 9780203094716 (e-book : PDF)Subject(s): Climatic changes -- History | Climatic changes -- Forecasting | Environmental disasters -- History | Environmental disasters -- Forecasting | Environmental risk assessmentGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Click here to access online Also available in print edition.

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1. Deadly weather : narratives of nature and agency during the little ice age -- 2. Counting the days : John Napier's Exegesis and mathematics -- 3. Drawing the end : Inigo Jones' Banqueting house -- 4. Assembling the worldmachine : mathematical modelling of climate change -- 5. Imagining futures : the special report on emission scenarios -- 6. Creating one future : the doomsday vault -- 7. Reclaiming futures : Olafur Eliasson's Weather project.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-221) and index.

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