Author Description

1. Anticipating Nature: The Productive Uncertainty Of Climate Models / Kirsten Hastrup -- 2. How Climate Models Gain And Exercise Authority / Mike Hume -- 3. Certain Figures: Modelling Nature Among Environmental Experts In Coastal Tamil Nadu / Frida Hastrup -- 4. Enacting Cyclones: The Mixed Response To Climate Change In The Cook Islands / Cecilie Rubow -- 5. Anticipation On Thin Ice: Diagrammatic Reasoning In The High Arctic / Kirsten Hastrup -- 6. Deciding The Future In The Land Of Snow: Tibet As An Arena For Conflicting Forms Of Knowledge And Policy / Hildegard Diemberger -- 7. Scaling Climate: The Politics Of Anticipation / Ásdís Jónsdóttir -- 8. Emancipating Nature: What The Flood Apprentice Learned From A Modelling Tutorial / Andres Kristian Munk -- Modelling Ice: A Field Diary Of Anticipation On The Greenland Ice Sheet / Martin Skrydstrup -- 10. Predictability In Question: On Climate Modelling In Physics / Peter D. Ditlevsen -- 11. Constructing Evidence And Trust: How Did Climate Scientists' Confidence In Their Models Ad Simulations Emerge? / Matthias Heymann -- 12. Afterword: Reopening The Book Of Nature(s) / Martin Skrydstrup. Edited By Kirsten Hastrup And Martin Skrydstrup. Outgrowth Of A Workshop Held Within The 5 Year Research Project, Waterworlds, At The University Of Copenhagen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.