Details

Subject(s)

• Climatic changes—Research—Scotland [Browse]
• Climatic changes—Scotland [Browse]

Series

• New ethnographies. [More in this series]
• Manchester scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

A detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists exposed in public, and of the making of scientific knowledge about climate change in Scotland. For four years, the author joined these scientists in their sampling expeditions into the Caledonian forests, observed their efforts in the laboratory to produce data from wood samples, and followed their discussions of a graph showing the fluctuations of the Scottish temperature over the past millennium in conferences, workshops and peer-review journals. This epistemography of climate change is of broad social and academic relevance - both for its contextualised treatment of a key contemporary science, and for its original formulation of a methodology for investigating and writing about expertise.

Notes

Also issued in print.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 11, 2020).

Contents

Front matter; Contents; Figures; Boxes; Preface: saving climate science; Acknowledgements; Series editor's foreword; Introduction: epistemography; Fieldwork; Dendrochronology; Standardisation; Reconstruction; Controversy; Bibliography; Index

ISBN

• 1-5261-4100-0
• 1-5261-5049-2
• 1-5261-4099-3

OCLC

• 1129191293
• 1142319845

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