Geoengineering, the Anthropocene and the end of nature / Jeremy Baskin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baskin, Jeremy, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climate change mitigation.

Environmental engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : color illustrations

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2019]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Author; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Introduction; The Basic Idea of Solar Geoengineering; Imagining Solar Geoengineering; Technoscience and the Sociotechnical; Historical Precursors; Knowledge-Power-Values; 'Official' Assessments and Knowledge-Brokers; Outline of This Book; References; 2: Geoengineering's Past: From Mastery to Taboo; Geoengineering's First Wave: Mastery; Technophilia, Hubris and the Early Cold War; Geological Engineering and Climate Modification; Tempering Hubris; Retreating from the Era of Mastery

Geoengineering's HiatusThe 1970s and Challenges to the Mastery Narrative; Attempts at Post-Cold War Revival; Why Attempts to Revive SGE Failed; Shifting Imaginaries of Climate, Nature and Globalisation; Changing Climate Science; Détente and Environmentalism; Globalisation and Universalist Discourses; References; 3: The Re-emergence of Solar Geoengineering; Climate Urgency and Emergency; Geoengineering's Re-emergence; The 2004 Tyndall Centre Gathering; Crutzen and the Lifting of the Taboo; The NASA Workshop; Respectable but Not Embraced; Rationales; Climate Emergency; Risk Reduction

Alternate Climate PolicyFrames and Metaphors; Representations; An Inability to Normalise; References; 4: Competing Imaginaries of Solar Geoengineering; Un-Natural: The Perils and Injustice of Geopiracy; Imperial: Acclimatising the World; Market: A Techno-Fix to Enable Business-as-Usual; Geo-management: Taking Charge of the Climate Crisis; Salvation: Saving the World from Climate Risk; Chemtrails: Secret Elites Poisoning the World; Convergences and Divergences in the Imaginaries; A Sociotechnical Imaginary Struggling to Be Born; The Imperial Imaginary's Quest for Legitimacy; References

5: Knowledge-Power-ValuesKnowledge/s; Epistemic Hierarchies; Managing Uncertainty; Counting Without Taking Account; Power; Emergency and Risk; Global Order; Capitalism; Values; The Ethics of SGE; Values and Ethics in the Institutional Reports; Ignoring and Narrowing Ethical Concerns; References; 6: Future Imaginings; The Climate of Power; A Technology of the Powerful; ... And Also Disruptive; Attaching SGE to More 'Optimistic' Imaginaries; Development; Anthropocene; References; 7: Conclusion; The Argument; What's Different?; What's Constraining SGE?; What's at Stake?; Knowledge; Values; Power

SGE's Shadow Presence in the Paris AgreementTroubling Environmentalism; References; Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource ; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 22, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783030173593

3030173593

Publisher Number:

99987166258

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.