Imagining climate engineering : dreaming of the designer climate / Jeroen Oomen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oomen, Jeroen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climate change mitigation.

Climatic changes.

Weather control.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Summary:

"This book highlights the increasing attention for climate engineering, a set of speculative technologies aimed to counter global warming. What is the future of the global climate? And who gets to decide-or even design-this future? Imagining Climate Engineering explores how and why climate engineering became a potential approach to anthropogenic climate change. Specifically, it showcases how views on the future of climate engineering by addressing the ways in which climate engineers view its respective physical, political, and moral domains. Tracing the intellectual and political history of dreams to control the weather and climate as well as the discovery of climate change, Jeroen Oomen examines the imaginative parameters within which contemporary climate engineering research takes place. Introducing the analytical metaphor 'ways of seeing' to describe explicit or implicit visions, understandings, and foci that facilitate a particular understanding of what is at stake, Imagining Climate Engineering shows how visions on the knowability of climate tie into moral and political convictions about the possibility and desirability of engineering the climate. Marrying science and technology studies and the environmental humanities, Oomen provides crucial insights for the future of the climate change debate for scholars and students"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

1 Introduction

2 Dreaming the designer climate

3 Renormalising climate intervention

4 Ways of seeing the climate

5 Ways of seeing power and authority

6 Ways of seeing intervention and control

7 Radical solutions and consistent imaginations

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-304355-0

1-003-04355-0

1-000-38004-1

9781003043553

OCLC:

1227817897