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a study of the ways in which climate change is rendered knowable at the national scale in India. The recent controversy surrounding the erroneous prediction of melting Himalayan glaciers by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a window
onto the complex and at times antagonistic relationship between the Panel and Indian political and scientific communities. The Indian reaction to the error – made public in 2009 – corresponded with a number of institutional innovations including the establishment
of a national scientific assessment network which has given the state a new platform on which to bring together knowledge of the future climate. The establishment and activities of the network were instigated by the Minister for Environment and Forests, who
was widely praised for promoting an Indian scientific voice on climate change at a time of both scientific and political controversy. However, alongside assertions of national scientific autonomy sits a broader epistemic network which inextricably links the
practices of climate prediction in India with those of the United Kingdom and other Western nations. This talk explores the scalar politics of these emergent networks and considers the increasing centrality of knowledge about the future of pre-defined territories
(for example, climate change predictions for nation states) as an epistemic foundation for certain forms of governing.</font></p>
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<div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:16px; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Biography</b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:16px; font-family:Tahoma">:</font><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color:white"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3">Martin
Mahony is a visiting fellow with the Program on Science, Technology and Society (STS) at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His current research focuses on the epistemic geographies of climate change, including the practices and politics of scientific
assessment and simulation modelling. He has published work on the practices and governance of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the contested role of regional climate predic<a name="_GoBack"></a>tions in adaption decision making, and on practices
of visualization in efforts to communicate the risks associated with climate change.</font></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt; line-height:normal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color:white">Martin is currently in the final year of his PhD at the University of East Anglia,
UK, where he works within the newly-formed Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) Research Group. He holds a BA (Hons) in Geography from Oxford University and an MRes in Environmental Social Science from the University of East Anglia.
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