Climate justice and geoengineering ethics and policy in the atmospheric Anthropocene

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Solar radiation management and comparative climate justice / Toby Svoboda -- Why geoengineering is not "Plan B" / Augustin Fragniére and Stephen M. Gardiner -- Justice, recognition, and climate change / Marion Hourdequin -- Do we have a residual obligation to engineer the climate, as a matter of justice? / Patrik Baard and Per Wikman-Svahn -- Paying it forward : geoengineering and compensation for the further future / Allen Habib and Frank Jankunis -- Solar geoengineering and obligations to the global poor / Joshua Horton and David Keith -- Why aggressive mitigation must be part of any pathway to climate justice / Christian Baatz and Konrad Ott -- Bringing geoengineering into the mix of climate change tools / Jane Long -- Food systems and climate engineering : a plate full of risks or promises? / Teea Kortetmäki and Markku Oksanen -- Framing out justice : the post-politics of climate engineering discourses / Duncan McLaren -- Solar geoengineering : technology-based climate intervention or compromising social justice in Africa? / Cush Ngozo Luwesi, Dzigbodi Adzo Doke and David R. Morrow -- Geoengineering and climate change mitigation : trade-offs and synergies as foreseen by integrated assessment models / Johannes Emmerling and Massimo Tavoni -- Distributional implications of geoengineering / Richard S.J. Tol.

It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues. The pertinent question yet to be addressed is how the ethical issues raised by climate engineering compare to those raised by alternative proposals for tackling climate change. This volume is the first to put the ethical issues raised by climate engineering into a comprehensive, comparative context so that the key ethical challenges of these technologies can be better measured against those of alternative climate policies . Addressing the topic specifically through the lens of justice, contributors include both advocates of climate intervention research and its skeptics. The volume includes a helpful blend of the theoretical and the practical, with contributions from authors in philosophy, engineering, public policy, social science, geography, sustainable development studies, economics, and climate studies. This cross-disciplinary collection provides the start of an important and more contextualized "second generation" analysis of climate engineering and the difficult public policy decisions that lie ahead.