Jack Stilgoe

Experiment Earth (eBook, ePUB)

Responsible innovation in geoengineering

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This introduction to responsible innovation, as a new approach to governance, explains the broad sweep of technoscience that is brought under the umbrella of "geoengineering". The possibility of exerting control over the global climate introduces profound social, political and ethical questions. The book explores these issues through the lens of the research project SPICE (Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering) one of the first major geoengineering studies worldwide. The book introduces recent 'experiments' in governance, involving new conversations with civil society and others, to explain science-in-society and suggest new ways forward. It illustrates broader dynamics that are of substantial relevance to both wider geoengineering debates and wider science and technology governance debates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317909132
• Artikelnr.: 42368905

Autorenporträt

Jack Stilgoe is a lecturer in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Balloon Debate 2. Taking Care of the Future 3. Rethinking the
Unthinkable 4. Behind the Scenes at the Royal Society 5. Open-Air
Experimentation 6. Making Models 7. The Reluctant Geoengineers 7.
Reclaiming the Experiment

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1. Balloon Debate 2. Taking Care of the Future 3. Rethinking the Unthinkable 4. Behind the Scenes at the Royal Society 5. Open-Air Experimentation 6. Making Models 7. The Reluctant Geoengineers 7. Reclaiming the Experiment

Rezensionen

"How should society react when the technological imagination seizes on the Earth itself as an experimental system? In this graceful critique of magical thinking, Stilgoe dissects the moves by which some came to see geoengineering as a project that not only can be done but must be done. An essential addition to the renewed debate on climate change, the book invites citizens and policy makers to think again about expert claims of inevitability, and to retake the future as a space for ethical and democratic imagining."-Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School, USA

"Experiment Earth is a book that is urgently needed. As human development becomes ever-more interwoven with the evolution of climate, Stilgoe asks a profound question: 'What does it mean to take responsibility for global climate?' His answer is more than about climate and science, and more than about geoengineering technologies. It is about how we see ourselves as responsible human beings, exercising power, creativity and judgement in the world, whilst remaining accountable to each other."-Mike Hulme, King's College London, UK

"To geoengineer or not to geoengineer the climate will be one of the defining science and environment policy questions of the next fifty years. In 'Experiment Earth', Jack Stilgoe provides an indispensable guide to the theories, politics and personalities which have shaped this emerging debate. With his unique perspective on the controversial SPICE project and the internal machinations of the Royal Society, Stilgoe digs beneath more superficial media coverage, to understand geoengineering as an experimental site for new approaches to the governance of technology and innovation. Entertaining, informative and insightful, this book should be read by all those who care about the future of science, democracy and the environment."-James Wilsdon, University of Sussex, UK

"Climate Engineering is a challenging subject to approach. One must be walk the line between normalisation of what, to many, appears unthinkable and a manifesto for despair and inaction opposite the very real threat of climate change. This book struggles admirably with this tension: what it is like to work on an idea you hope never happens, and how could you ever control it? Stilgoe has been afforded access to the scientists working in this difficult arena, building trust and detailing our, and his, struggle to come to terms with the enormity of the problem. If you want to be inspired to wrestle with the intellectual challenges of how one might govern climate engineering technologies there may never be a better and more timely read than this." -Matt Watson, University of Bristol, UK

"This book offers much food for thought and discussion.Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels." - CHOICE, C. W. Dimmick, emeritus, Central Connecticut State University, USA



"Stilgoe brings his own, important, values to the discussion, in particular his faith in participatory governance and belief in its intrinsic worth." - Robert J Lempert, RAND Pardee Center for Longer-Range Global Policy
and the Future Human Condition, USA