Geoengineering : the gamble /

"A bestselling climate economist asks 'is geoengineering worth the gamble to tackle climate change?'"--

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Main Authors: Wagner, Gernot
Published: Polity Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA :
Publication Dates: 2021.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: "A bestselling climate economist asks 'is geoengineering worth the gamble to tackle climate change?'"--
Carrier Form: 199 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [164]-188) and index.
ISBN: 9781509543069
1509543066
9781509543052
1509543058
Index Number: TD171
CLC: X141
Call Number: X141/W133
Contents: Part I: Incentives -- Not if, but when -- What could possibly go wrong? -- The drive to research -- Part II: Scenarios -- 'Rational' climate policy -- A humanitarian cyclone crisis -- Millions of geoengineers -- Part III: Governance -- Green moral hazards -- Research governance -- Epilogue: The inevitable gamble.