DOI: 10.1002/wcc.263
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84893795235
论文题名: 'In case of emergency press here': Framing geoengineering as a response to dangerous climate change
作者: Markusson N ; , Ginn F ; , Singh Ghaleigh N ; , Scott V
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2014
卷: 5, 期: 2 起始页码: 281
结束页码: 290
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Emergency services
; Abrupt climate change
; Dangerous climate changes
; Geoengineering
; Large-scale impacts
; Possible futures
; Climate change
; climate change
; climate effect
; environmental policy
; international law
; policy approach
英文摘要: Geoengineering, especially its potentially fast and high-leverage versions, is often justified as a necessary response to possible future climate emergencies. In this article, we take the notion of 'necessity' in international law as a starting point in assessing how rapid, high-leverage geoengineering might be justified legally. The need to specify reliably 'grave and imminent peril' makes such a justification difficult because our scientific ability to predict abrupt climate change, for example, as tipping elements, is limited. The time it takes to establish scientific consensus as well as policy acceptance restricts the scope for effective forewarning and so pre-emptive justifications for geoengineering become more tempting. While recognizing that dangerous, large-scale impacts of climate change is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid, the pre-emptive, emergency frame is problematic. We suggest that arguments from emergency operate on a high level of uncertainty and tend toward hubristic attempts to shape the future, as well as tending to close down rather than open up space for deliberation. We conclude that the emergency frame is not likely to go away, that ignoring or repressing it is a dangerous response, and that more effort is required to defuse and disarm emergency rhetoric. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76338
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom; School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Markusson N,, Ginn F,, Singh Ghaleigh N,et al. 'In case of emergency press here': Framing geoengineering as a response to dangerous climate change[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2014-01-01,5(2)