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Image Politics of Climate Change: Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations
Birgit Schneider
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Description for Image Politics of Climate Change: Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations
Paperback. Editor(s): Schneider, Birgit; Nocke, Thomas. Num Pages: 388 pages, 66 b/w & 3 colour illus. BIC Classification: AC; JFD; JHB; JPQB; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 226 x 28. Weight in Grams: 610.
Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images picturing climate change. These range from colorful expert graphics, model visualizations, photographs of extreme weather events like floods, droughts or melting ice, symbols like polar bears, to animated and interactive visualizations. Climate change graphics have not only increased knowledge about the subject, they have begun to influence popular awareness of global weather events. The status of climate pictures today is particularly crucial, as global climate change as a long-term process cannot be seen. When images are widely distributed, they are able to shape how the world is ... Read more
Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images picturing climate change. These range from colorful expert graphics, model visualizations, photographs of extreme weather events like floods, droughts or melting ice, symbols like polar bears, to animated and interactive visualizations. Climate change graphics have not only increased knowledge about the subject, they have begun to influence popular awareness of global weather events. The status of climate pictures today is particularly crucial, as global climate change as a long-term process cannot be seen. When images are widely distributed, they are able to shape how the world is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
388
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837626100
SKU
V9783837626100
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Ref
99-2
About Birgit Schneider
Birgit Schneider (PhD in cultural studies) is postdoc fellow at the Institute for Arts and Media at University of Potsdam, Germany. Thomas Nocke (PhD in computer science) investigates visualization methods for climate data and visual climate knowledge communication at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.
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