The Emergence of Geoengineering

How Knowledge Networks Form Governance Objects

Ina Möller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

88 Seiten

2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-04895-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Tracing the Geoengineering Trajectory; 3. The Geoengineering Knowledge Network; 4. Historical and Cultural Contexts – A Critical Reflection; 5. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Earth System Governance
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 230 mm
Gewicht	150 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-009-04895-3 / 1009048953
ISBN-13	978-1-009-04895-8 / 9781009048958
Zustand	Neuware