The emergence of geoengineering : how knowledge networks form governance objects / Ina Möller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Möller, Ina, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in earth system governance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climate change mitigation--Government policy.

Climate change mitigation.

Environmental geotechnology--Political aspects.

Environmental geotechnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (77 pages) : illustrations (colour), digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

For many years, suggestions to 'geoengineer' the climate occupied a marginal role in climate change science and politics. Today, visions of massive carbon drawdown and sunlight reflection have become reasonable additions to conventional mitigation and adaptation. Why did researchers start engaging with ideas that were, for a long time, considered highly controversial? And how did some of these ideas come to be perceived worthy of research funding and in need of international governance? This Element provides an analysis of the recent history and evolution of geoengineering as a governance object. It explains how geoengineering evolved from a thought shared by a small network into a governance object that is likely to shape the future of climate politics. In the process, it generates a theory on the earliest phase of the policy cycle and sheds light on the question why we govern the things we govern in the first place.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 31, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781009049696

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.