Climate change geoengineering philosophical perspectives, legal issues, and governance frameworks / edited by Wil C.G. Burns, the Johns Hopkins University ; Andrew L. Strauss, Widener University School of Law, Delaware. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Ethics, geoengineering and moral schizophrenia : what's the question? / The ethical foundations of climate engineering / The psychological costs of geoengineering : why it may be hard to accept even if it works / Geoengineering and climate management : from marginality to inevitability / Climate engineering and the anthropocene era / Political legitimacy in decisions about experiments in solar radiation management / Geoengineering and the myth of unilateralism : pressures and prospects for international cooperation / International legal regimes and principles relevant to geoengineering / Climate geoengineering : solar radiation management and its implications for intergenerational equity / Ocean iron fertilization : science, law, and uncertainty / Ocean iron fertilization : time to lift the research taboo / Remaking the world to save it : applying US environmental laws to climate engineering projects / Stephen M. Gardiner -- Clive Hamilton -- Gareth Davies -- Jay Michaelson -- Lee Lane -- David R. Morrow, Robert E. Kopp and Michael Oppenheimer -- Joshua B. Horton -- Albert C. Lin -- William C.G. Burns -- Randall S. Abate -- Kerstin Güssow, Andreas Oschlies, Alexander Proelss, Katrin Rehdanz and Wilfried Rickels -- Tracy Hester.



9781461936626


Environmental geotechnology.
Climatic changes.
Environmental engineering--Law and legislation.


Electronic Books.

TD171 / .C556 2013