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This thorough and accessible text introduces readers to the topic of climate engineering. Landes defines key concepts, presents the major methods and techniques, proposes an evaluative framework for judging whether to embark upon a specific interventions, and reviews the main reasons for initiating action toward climate alteration or resisting it.
Table des matières
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction: Climate Change and Alteration in the AnthropoceneHow Accurate is Geoengineering Denomination?
Intensifying Climate Concerns
Would Climate Engineering Announce a New Era?
Anthropocene Controversies
The Onset of the Anthropogenic Influence
Mitigation, Adaptation, and Climate Engineering
Rationale and Structure of the Book
Chapter 1: What is Climate Engineering?Deliberate
Large-Scale
Countering Anthropogenic Climate Change
Is Climate Engineering Reducible to Conventional Climate Policy?
CDR and MitigationSRM and AdaptationChapter 2: An Evaluative FrameworkHow to Evaluate Climate Engineering?
Feasibility
Technological MaturityScalabilityEfficiencyPermissibility
Intrinsic Moral ValueRisks and UncertaintyDistributive JusticeProcedural JusticeSocial AcceptabilityIntergenerational JusticeRegulation and GovernancePreferability
Complicating FactorsA Glimpse into Comparative PrinciplesTechnological Difference and Moral Non-Equivalence
Chapter 3: Climate Engineering Methods I: Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)What is CDR?
Land-Based Carbon Sinks Enhancement
Land Management and Ecosystem RestorationLand SequestrationLand Enhanced WeatheringOcean-Based Carbon Sinks Enhancement
Ocean Enhanced WeatheringOcean PumpsMacroalgae CultivationFully Engineered Carbon Sinks
Carbon Capture and Storage/Sequestration (CCS)Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage/Sequestration (BECCS)Direct Air Capture and Storage/Sequestration (DACS)CDR: A General Assessment
FeasibilityPermissibilityPreferabilityChapter 4: Climate Engineering Methods II: Solar Radiation Management (SRM)What is SRM?
Surface Albedo Modification
Urban Surface Brightening (USB)Crop AlbedoTropospheric Interventions
Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB)Cirrus Cloud Thinning (CCT)Stratospheric Interventions
Space-Based Interventions
SRM: A General Assessment
FeasibilityPermissibilityPreferabilityChapter 5: Engineering the Climate: Arguments and ObjectionsMitigation Gap and Necessity
The Distinction Between Research and Deployment
Reasons for the Distinction (and in Support of Research)Reasons Against the Distinction (and Research)Governing ResearchJustifications for Climate Engineering
Objections to Climate Engineering
Efficiency ObjectionsPrecautionary ObjectionsCapture ObjectionsPolitical ObjectionsMoral CorruptionConclusionBibliography
About the Author
A propos de l'auteur
Xavier Landes is an associate professor at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. In addition, he has held positions at Université de Montréal, University of Toronto, and Copenhagen University. Landes's areas of expertise are political and moral philosophy. He has published on various topics such as multiculturalism, the welfare state, public insurance, and happiness. Climate change and climate alteration constitute his current focuses of research and teaching.
