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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=SV link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dear List Members,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I would like to bring my new book to your attention: <i>Hot Science, High Water </i>(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. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>in Vietnam and abroad. <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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.</span><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span></i><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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 </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>agreement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>For more information, please see: <a href="http://www.niaspress.dk/books/hot-science-high-water">http://www.niaspress.dk/books/hot-science-high-water</a> .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Lastly and most importantly, I would once again like to thank those of you that helped to make this research possible. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Eren<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cordia New","sans-serif"'>Eren Zink, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cordia New","sans-serif"'>Director of Studies for Cultural Anthropology, Advanced Level<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cordia New","sans-serif"'>Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cordia New","sans-serif"'>Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Cordia New","sans-serif"'>Email: <a href="mailto:Eren.Zink@antro.uu.se">Eren.Zink@antro.uu.se</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cordia New","sans-serif"'>Postal address: Box 631, 751 26 Uppsala, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cordia New","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>