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1 online resource (330 pages) |
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Cover; Climate Change Geoengineering; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction The Emerging Salience of Geoengineering; Part I Ethics and Philosophy; 1 Geoengineering and Moral Schizophrenia; 1. Ethical Shortsightedness and the Context of Climate Engineering; 1.1 Two Questions; 1.2 A Perfect Moral Storm; 2. Moral Schizophrenia; 2.1 Moral Schizophrenia; 2.2 Agent 1; 2.3 Wayne's Folly; 2.4 Climate Parallels; 3. Implications; 4. Objections; 4.1 Who Is Wayne?; 4.2 What about a "Pure" Actor?; 4.3 Can We Just Get on With Our Science (Please)? |
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4.4 Do Scientists Not Have a Special Moral Obligation to Pursue Geoengineering?4.5 What Other Options?; 4.6 Are We Not Already Advocating for a "Portfolio" Approach?; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; 2 The Ethical Foundations of Climate Engineering; 1. Introduction; 2. The Consequentialist Worldview; 3. Conception of the Earth; 4. Calculation versus Humility; 5. Preferring the Natural; 6. The Meaning of Facts; 7. Identifying "Winners and Losers"; 8. Technological Thinking; Acknowledgments; 3 The Psychological Costs of Geoengineering; 1. Introduction; 2. Geoengineering; 3. Loss |
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4. The Psychological Importance of Geoengineering4.1 Relative Status; 4.2 Security; 4.3 Hope; 5. Conclusion; Part II Law and Governance; 4 Geoengineering and Climate Management; 1. Introduction; 2. Geoengineering: Fifteen Years Later; 2.1 Nomenclature: Let Us Get Rid of "Geoengineering"; 2.2 What Has Not Changed, or: 500 Wrongs Do Make a Right; 2.3 What Has Changed; 2.3.1 Geoengineering Comes of Age; 3. The (U.N.) Empire Strikes Back; 4. What Can Brown Do for the Earth?; Summary: Plus C'est la Même Chose, Plus ça Change; 5. The Case for Plan B |
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5.1 Are We Still Afraid of Giant Laser Space Frisbees?5.1.1 Moral Hazard: "Don't Worry, Be Happy"?; 5.1.2 Risks: Unk-Unks; 5.1.3 Equity: The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly ... ; 5.1.4 Future Costs: In the Art of Stopping; 5.1.5 Monitoring and Institutions: Going Rogue; 5.2 The Vicissitudes of Inevitability; 5.2.1 Utopian Dreams, Dystopian Nightmares; 5.2.2 Killing Mother Nature; 5.2.3 One Man Cannot Make a Difference; 6. Conclusion, or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying and Still Love Climate Management; Acknowledgments; 5 Climate Engineering and the Anthropocene Era |
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1. The Climate Change Problem and Responses to It1.1 The Modern Transformation and Its Potential Limits; 1.2 The Global Political Economy of Climate Change; 2. GHG Controls: An Option Fraught with Contradictions; 2.1 GHG Control: Potential Net Benefits Are Small; 2.1.1 Theory Suggests Small Net Benefits; 2.1.2 GHG Control and Other Policy Goals; 2.2 National Institutions and GHG Control; 2.2.1 Institutional Constraints; 2.2.2 U.S. Command-and-Control Regulation; 2.2.3 China's Institutions and GHG Intensity; 2.3 The High Costs of Global Agreement on GHG Control |
| Summary |
In this book, eleven prominent authorities on climate change consider the legal, policy and philosophical issues presented by geoengineering |
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Print version record |
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Environmental geotechnology.
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Climatic changes
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Environmental engineering -- Law and legislation.
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Climate Change
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climate change.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control.
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Climatic changes
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Environmental engineering -- Law and legislation
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Environmental geotechnology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Burns, Wil C. G., editor
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Strauss, Andrew L., editor
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| ISBN |
9781107278455 |
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1107278457 |
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9781461936626 |
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1461936624 |
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9781139161824 |
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1139161822 |
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110727396X |
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9781107273962 |
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9781107502635 |
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1107502632 |
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