Limits and Limitlessness: Exploring Time in Scientific Practice.
This article explores some of the ways that time figures in the scientific practices of instrumental micrometeorology and climatic and weather modeling. It draws on ethnographic work done with the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), an international scientific project that...
| Publicado en: | Social Analysis Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 20 - 34 |
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Berghahn Books
Spring2013
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