Deep time reckoning : how future thinking can help Earth now

Deep time reckoning : how future thinking can help Earth now / Vincent Ialenti.

Author/creator	Ialenti, Vincent author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
Description	xviii, 186 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)	Radioactive waste disposal in the ground--Finland. Radioactive waste repositories--Finland. Environmental policy--Finland. Nature--Effect of human beings on --Forecasting. Global environmental change--Forecasting. Human ecology. Social planning. Geology, Stratigraphic--Anthropocene. Time--Social aspects. Finland--Environmental conditions --21st century.

Series	One planet
Contents	Introduction: Embracing deep time learning -- How to ride analogies across deep time -- How far future worlds sprout from simple repeating patterns -- How to zoom in and out on deep time from different angles -- How to face deep time expertise's mortality -- Conclusion: Escaping shallow time discipline.
Abstract	"How Finland's nuclear waste experts discern far future Earths, and what the rest of us non-Finns and non-experts can learn from them"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2019053898
ISBN	9780262539265 paperback
ISBN	0262539268 paperback

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	TD898.13 .F5 I25 2020	✔ Available	Place Hold