Into the Woods: An Epistemography of Climate Change
Meritxell Ramírez-i-Ollé
Abstract
This book is a detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists whose work was questioned 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 i ... More
Keywords: epistemography, climate change, Science and Technology Studies, dendroclimatology, sociology, ethnography
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9781526140982 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: May 2020 | DOI:10.7765/9781526140999 |
