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This one-stop guide to getting published in anthropology gives
graduate students and young professionals the crucial information
and tools they need to tackle the all-important requirement to
publish. Part I provides step-by-step guidance on key efforts that
budding anthropologists can benefit from, including organizing a
conference panel, creating a poster, presenting a paper, getting an
article published in a journal, and publishing a dissertation as a
monograph. In Part II, scholars in the anthropology subdisciplines
offer first-hand insight into publishing in their area. Part III
chapters cover author contracts, copyright issues, collaboration,
and online publishing opportunities. Helpful appendices list
anthropology journals and publishers specializing in anthropology
books.
The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists
learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its
past, and to model its future. Global warming skeptics often fall
back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is
all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we
need to wait for real data, "sound science." In A Vast Machine Paul
Edwards has news for these skeptics: without models, there are no
data. Today, no collection of signals or observations-even from
satellites, which can "see" the whole planet with a single
instrument-becomes global in time and space without passing through
a series of data models. Everything we know about the world's
climate we know through models. Edwards offers an engaging and
innovative history of how scientists learned to understand the
atmosphere-to measure it, trace its past, and model its future.
In recent years, Earth systems science has advanced rapidly,
helping to transform climate change and other planetary risks into
major political issues. Changing the Atmosphere strengthens our
understanding of this important link between expert knowledge and
environmental governance. In so doing, it illustrates how the
emerging field of science and technology studies can inform our
understanding of the human dimensions of global environmental
change.Incorporating historical, sociological, and philosophical
approaches, Changing the Atmosphere presents detailed empirical
studies of climate science and its uptake into public policy.
Topics include the scientific, political, and social processes
involved in the creation of scientific knowledge about climate
change; the historical and contemporary role of expert knowledge in
creating and perpetuating policy concern about climate change; and
the place of science in institutions of global environmental
governance such as the World Meteorological Organization, the
Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change. Together, the essays demonstrate
fundamental connections between the science and politics of planet
Earth. In the struggle to create sustainable forms of environmental
governance, they indicate, a necessary first step is to understand
how communities achieve credible, authoritative representations of
nature.Contributors Paul N. Edwards, Dale Jamieson, Sheila
Jasanoff, Chunglin Kwa, Clark Miller, Stephen D. Norton, Stephen H.
Schneider, Simon Shackley, Frederick Suppe.
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