[Ngo Climate Change] New book on climate change policy making in Vietnam: Hot Science, High Water

[Eren Zink]

Dear List Members,

I would like to bring my new book to your attention: Hot Science, High Water
(NIAS Press 2013). The book addresses the roles of scientists, policy makers
and NGO representatives in crafting a response to climate change in Vietnam
during 2007-2012. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in universities,
government offices, and foreign embassies, as well as coastal conservation
and aquaculture sites, the study unravels a complex network of social and
economic relationships that combined with scientific data and natural
processes to establish the facts of climate change in Vietnam and abroad. 

More generally, this book is an ethnography of science and environmental
policy making in a developing country grappling with the local implications
of global networks of knowledge production, and shifting trends in
international development policy. It shows how and why the facts of climate
change can be widely different amongst different groups of individuals and
organizations, even when there is a superficial appearance of agreement.

For more information, please see:
http://www.niaspress.dk/books/hot-science-high-water .

Lastly and most importantly, I would once again like to thank those of you
that helped to make this research possible. 

Best regards,

Eren

Eren Zink, PhD

Director of  Studies for Cultural Anthropology, Advanced Level

Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology

Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University

Email: Eren.Zink at antro.uu.se

Postal address: Box 631, 751 26 Uppsala, Sweden

 

 

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