Ethical Aspects of Climate Engineering

• Autor principal: Betz, Gregor (auth)
• Outros Autores: Cacean, Sebastian (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Karlsruhe KIT Scientific Publishing 2012
• Colecção: KIT Scientific Publishing
• Assuntos: Conservation of the environment; climate engineering; geoengineering; climate ethics; argument map
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This study investigates the ethical aspects of deploying and researching into so-called climate engineering methods, i.e. large-scale technical interventions in the climate system with the objective of offsetting anthropogenic climate change. The moral reasons in favour of and against R&D into a...