An International Legal Framework for Geoengineering
An International Legal Framework for Geoengineering: Managing the Risks of an Emerging Technology
Routledge | English | 2018 | ISBN-10: 1138744611 | 282 pages | PDF | 3.08 mb
Routledge | English | 2018 | ISBN-10: 1138744611 | 282 pages | PDF | 3.08 mb
by Haomiao Du (Author)
Geoengineering provides new possibilities for humans to deal with dangerous climate change and its effects but at the same time creates new risks to the planet. This book responds to the challenges geoengineering poses to international law by identifying and developing the rules and principles that are aimed at controlling the risks to the environment and human health arising from geoengineering activities, without neglecting the contribution that geoengineering could make in preventing dangerous climate change and its impacts. This book first investigates international laws and principles that apply to geoengineering in general and to six specific geoengineering techniques respectively. Then, this book compares different governance approaches and predicts the short-, mid- and long-term scenarios of the international governance of geoengineering. In the end, in order to balance the postive and negative dimensions of geoengineering, this book proposes an assessment framework and a tailored implementation of the precautionary approach.
About the Author
Haomiao Du is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Twente, the Netherlands
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