Climate Change Geoengineering (eBook, ePUB)

Philosophical Perspectives, Legal Issues, and Governance Frameworks
Redaktion: Burns, Wil C. G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The international community is not taking the action necessary to avert dangerous increases in greenhouse gases. Facing a potentially bleak future, the question that confronts humanity is whether the best of bad alternatives may be to counter global warming through human-engineered climate interventions. In this book, eleven prominent authorities on climate change consider the legal, policy and philosophical issues presented by geoengineering. The book asks: when, if ever, are decisions to embark on potentially risky climate modification projects justified? If such decisions can be justified, in a world without a central governing authority, who should authorize such projects and by what moral and legal right? If states or private actors undertake geoengineering ventures absent the blessing of the international community, what recourse do the rest of us have?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107272477
• Artikelnr.: 52999870

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Ethics and Philosophy: 1. Ethics, geoengineering and moral
schizophrenia: what's the question? Stephen M. Gardiner; 2. The ethical
foundations of climate engineering Clive Hamilton; 3. The psychological
costs of geoengineering: why it may be hard to accept even if it works
Gareth Davies; Part II. Law and Governance: 4. Geoengineering and climate
management: from marginality to inevitability Jay Michaelson; 5. Climate
engineering and the anthropocene era Lee Lane; 6. Political legitimacy in
decisions about experiments in solar radiation management David R. Morrow,
Robert E. Kopp and Michael Oppenheimer; 7. Geoengineering and the myth of
unilateralism: pressures and prospects for international cooperation Joshua
B. Horton; 8. International legal regimes and principles relevant to
geoengineering Albert C. Lin; 9. Climate geoengineering: solar radiation
management and its implications for intergenerational equity William C. G.
Burns; 10. Ocean iron fertilization: science, law, and uncertainty Randall
S. Abate; 11. Ocean iron fertilization: time to lift the research taboo
Kerstin Güssow, Andreas Oschlies, Alexander Proelss, Katrin Rehdanz and
Wilfried Rickels; 12. Remaking the world to save it: applying US
environmental laws to climate engineering projects Tracy Hester.