Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication Year:
2013
Publication Place
New York, USA
Physical Description:
viii, 319p. ; 24cm
Call Number
628.532 CLI
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
39167
Legacy PEIN ID:
79194
General Notes
Includes Index
Subject Heading(s)
Environmental geotechnology
Climate changes
Environmental engineering - Law and legislation
Abstract
The international community is not taking the action necessary to avert dangerous increases in greenhouse gases. Facing a potentially bleak future, the question that confronts humanity is whether the best of bad alternatives may be to counter global warming through human-engineered climate interventions. In this book, eleven prominent authorities on climate change consider the legal, policy, and philosophical issues presented by geoengineering. The book asks: When, if ever, are decisions to embark on potentially risky climate modification projects justified? If such decisions can be justified, in a world without a central governing authority, who should authorize such projects and by what moral and legal right? If states or private actors undertake geoengineering ventures absent the blessing of the international community, what recourse do the rest of us have?
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication Year:
2013
Publication Place
New York, USA
Physical Description:
viii, 319p. ; 24cm
Call Number
628.532 CLI
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
39167
Legacy PEIN ID:
79194
General Notes
Includes Index
Record Created: 26-Aug-2013
Record Modified: 20-Sep-2022