Recommended Articles & News - Geoengineering
- Robock, A., Jerch, K., & Bunzl, M. (2008). 20 reasons why geoengineering may be a bad idea. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 64(2), 14–59. doi:10.1080/00963402.2008.11461140
- Stilgoe, J. (2016). Geoengineering as collective experimentation. Science and Engineering Ethics, 22(3), 851–869. doi:10.1007/s11948-015-9646-0
Recommended Books - Geoengineering
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Climate Change Geoengineering by
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?
Call Number: Rose QC903 .B74 2015ISBN: 9781107023932Publication Date: 2013-07-22
Climate Justice and Geoengineering by
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 sceptics. 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.
Call Number: Rose GE220 .C55 2016ISBN: 9781783486373Publication Date: 2016-09-21
