Deborah R Coen: Climate in Motion

Cover: 9780226752334 | Climate in Motion | Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale | Coen

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Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth's climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary. Climate in Motion shows that this multiscalar, multicausal framework emerged well before computers and satellites. Extending the history of modern climate science back into the nineteenth century, Deborah R. Coen uncovers its roots in the politics of empire-building in central and eastern Europe. She argues that essential elements of the modern understanding of climate arose as a means of thinking across scales in a state--the multinational Habsburg Monarchy, a patchwork of medieval kingdoms and modern laws--where such thinking was a political imperative. Led by Julius Hann in Vienna, Habsburg scientists were the first to investigate precisely how local winds and storms might be related to the general circulation of the earth's atmosphere as a whole. Linking Habsburg climatology to the political and artistic experiments of late imperial Austria, Coen grounds the seemingly esoteric science of the atmosphere in the everyday experiences of an earlier era of globalization. Climate in Motion presents the history of modern climate science as a history of "scaling"--that is, the embodied work of moving between different frameworks for measuring the world. In this way, it offers a critical historical perspective on the concepts of scale that structure thinking about the climate crisis today and the range of possibilities for responding to it.

Über den Autor

Deborah R. Coen is professor of history and chair of Yale University's Program in the History of Science and Medicine. She is the author of Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life and The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Importe , Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780226752334
ISBN-10:	022675233X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Coen, Deborah R
Hersteller:	University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	227 x 151 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Deborah R Coen
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.11.2020
Gewicht:	0,58 kg

Artikel-ID: 132465874

Über den Autor

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Importe , Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780226752334
ISBN-10:	022675233X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Coen, Deborah R
Hersteller:	University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	227 x 151 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Deborah R Coen
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.11.2020
Gewicht:	0,58 kg