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