Holly Jean Buck

After Geoengineering

Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What if the people seized the means of climate production?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso / Verso US
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 6338
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 158mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781788730365
• ISBN-10: 1788730364
• Artikelnr.: 54944241

Autorenporträt

Holly Jean Buck writes on emerging technologies in the Anthropocene, with work appearing in journals like Development and Change, Climatic Change, Annals of the American Association of Geographers and Hypatia. Since 2009, she has been researching the social dimensions of geoengineering, including as a faculty fellow with the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment in Washington, DC, as a member of the Steering Committee for the international Climate Engineering Conference in Berlin, and as a doctoral researcher at Cornell University, from which she holds a PhD in development sociology.

Rezensionen

In the face of rapid climate change, how should we think about geoengineering? In this timely and bold book, Holly Jean Buck lays out a case for approaching geoengineering from the Left. Blending journalistic insight with scientific speculation, After Geoenginneeringinspires much-needed thought experiments about the changes coming to our warmer and weirder world. Joel Wainwright, author of Decolonizing Development, Geopiracy, and Climate Leviathan (with Geoff Mann)