Climate change geoengineering : philosophical perspectives, legal issues, and governance frameworks / edited by Wil C.G. Burns, Johns Hopkins University, Andrew L. Strauss, Widener University School of Law.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burns, William C. G., editor.

Strauss, Andrew L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental geotechnology.

Climatic changes.

Environmental engineering--Law and legislation.

Environmental engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 319 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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?

Contents:

Ethics, geoengineering and moral schizophrenia : what's the question? / Stephen M. Gardiner

The ethical foundations of climate engineering / Clive Hamilton

The psychological costs of geoengineering : why it may be hard to accept even if it works / Gareth Davies

Geoengineering and climate management : from marginality to inevitability / Jay Michaelson

Climate engineering and the anthropocene era / Lee Lane

Political legitimacy in decisions about experiments in solar radiation management / David R. Morrow, Robert E. Kopp and Michael Oppenheimer

Geoengineering and the myth of unilateralism : pressures and prospects for international cooperation / Joshua B. Horton

International legal regimes and principles relevant to geoengineering / Albert C. Lin

Climate geoengineering : solar radiation management and its implications for intergenerational equity / William C.G. Burns

Ocean iron fertilization : science, law, and uncertainty / Randall S. Abate

Ocean iron fertilization : time to lift the research taboo / Kerstin Güssow, Andreas Oschlies, Alexander Proelss, Katrin Rehdanz and Wilfried Rickels

Remaking the world to save it : applying US environmental laws to climate engineering projects / Tracy Hester.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-107-27247-5

1-139-88913-3

1-107-27187-8

1-107-50263-2

1-107-27519-9

1-107-27845-7

1-107-27396-X

1-139-16182-2

1-107-27722-1

OCLC:

854975209