Moderator: Mara Tignino
Abstract
In an era of climate crises and growing water shortages, atmospheric water is becoming a coveted resource. This panel explores the historical, economic, and political motivations behind the quest to control atmospheric water, from ancestral practices (rainmakers, rituals) to contemporary megaprojects (cloud seeding, atmospheric river diversion).
Panel 2
- Matteo Bächtold: Rainmaker, a Political Role;
- Etienne de L’Estoile: The Invisible Flows of Water: Atmospheric Hydrology—a Blind Spot in Economics?;
- James Rodger Fleming: Promises and Controversies of Cloud Seeding and Climate Control Projects;
- Christina Leb: Atmospheric Water in Development Assistance Policies.
