Climate justice and geoengineering : ethics and policy in the atmospheric Anthropocene /
It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues. The pertinent question yet to be addressed is how the ethical issues raised by climate engineering compare to those raised by alternative proposals for tackling climate change. This volume is the first to put the...
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Publisher Address: | London : |
Publication Dates: | [2016] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues. The pertinent question yet to be addressed is how the ethical issues raised by climate engineering compare to those raised by alternative proposals for tackling climate change. This volume is the first to put the ethical issues raised by climate engineering into a comprehensive, comparative context so that the key ethical challenges of these technologies can be better measured against those of alternative climate policies . Addressing the topic specifically through the lens of justice, contributors include both advocates of climate intervention research and its skeptics. The volume includes a helpful blend of the theoretical and the practical, with contributions from authors in philosophy, engineering, public policy, social science, geography, sustainable development studies, economics, and climate studies. This cross-disciplinary collection provides the start of an important and more contextualized "second generation" analysis of climate engineering and the difficult public policy decisions that lie ahead. |
Carrier Form: | xxiii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781783486366 1783486368 9781783486373 1783486376 9781783486380 1783486384 |
Index Number: | GE220 |
CLC: | X5 |
Call Number: | X5/C639-1 |
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Solar radiation management and comparative climate justice / Why geoengineering is not "Plan B" / Justice, recognition, and climate change / Do we have a residual obligation to engineer the climate, as a matter of justice? / Paying it forward : geoengineering and compensation for the further future / Solar geoengineering and obligations to the global poor / Why aggressive mitigation must be part of any pathway to climate justice / Bringing geoengineering into the mix of climate change tools / Food systems and climate engineering : a plate full of risks or promises? / Framing out justice : the post-politics of climate engineering discourses / Solar geoengineering : technology-based climate intervention or compromising social justice in Africa? / Geoengineering and climate change mitigation : trade-offs and synergies as foreseen by integrated assessment models / Distributional implications of geoengineering / |