Governance of Solar Geoengineering - Managing Climate Change in the Anthropocene

Solar geoengineering could reduce climate change, but poses risks. This volume explores how it is, could, and should be governed.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Climate change and solar geoengineering; 3. Solar geoengineering and emissions abatement; 4. International relations; 5. International law: legal norms, principles, custom, and organizations; 6. International law: the climate and atmosphere; 7. International law: human rights; 8. International law: other agreements; 9. US law; 10. Nonstate governance; 11. Nonstate actors and intellectual property; 12. International compensation and liability; 13. A path forward; 14. Conclusion.

About the author

Jesse L. Reynolds is an Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, as well as an associate researcher at Universiteit Utrecht and a research affiliate at Harvard University, Massachusetts. He has degrees from Tilburg University; the University of California, Berkeley; and Hampshire College, and has been a US Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results Graduate Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar.

Product details

• Authors: Jesse L. Reynolds, Jesse L. (University of California Reynolds
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781316614136
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61413-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; LAW / Environmental, Environmental Economics, environmental science, engineering & technology, Pollution & threats to the environment, Social impact of environmental issues, Environmental policy & protocols, Environment law, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment, Pollution and threats to the environment, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Environmental policy and protocols