State, science, and the skies
Subtitle: governmentalities of the British atmosphere
By: Mark Whitehead.
Series: RGS-IBG book series
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405191746; 9781405191739
Subjects: Air -- Pollution -- Government policy -- Great Britain.; Air quality -- Government policy -- Great Britain.; Science and state -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : space, history and the governing of air pollution; title: Historical geographies of science and government : exploring the apparatuses of atmospheric knowledge production; title: Science, sight and the optics of air government; title: Governing air conduct : exhibition, examination and the cultivation of the atmospheric self; title: Instrumentation and the sites of atmospheric monitoring; title: A national census of the air : spatial science, calculation and the geo-coding of the atmosphere; title: Automating the air : atmospheric simulations and digital beings; title: Environmental governmentalities and the ecological coding of the British atmosphere; title: Conclusion : learning like a state in an age of atmospheric change.