FW: Publication: The Emergence of Geoengineering

[Leeuwen, Judith van]

This new publication of my colleague Ina Moller (cc) might be of interest to some of you on the list, so I am sharing this with you as well:

 

I’m happy to announce the publication of my Cambridge Element on ‘The Emergence of Geoengineering’. It is a critical analysis of why and how the concept of geoengineering emerged on the scientific and political agenda.

 

The PDF is free to download until 30. January: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009049696

 

After that, please contact Ina for a copy or find the pre-print version available at: https://edepot.wur.nl/576164

 

 

Abstract:

For many years, suggestions to 'geoengineer' the climate occupied a marginal role in climate change science and politics. Today, visions of massive carbon drawdown and sunlight reflection have become reasonable additions to conventional mitigation and adaptation. Why did researchers start engaging with ideas that were, for a long time, considered highly controversial? And how did some of these ideas come to be perceived worthy of research funding and in need of international governance? This Element provides an analysis of the recent history and evolution of geoengineering as a governance object. It explains how geoengineering evolved from a thought shared by a small network into a governance object that is likely to shape the future of climate politics. In the process, it generates a theory on the earliest phase of the policy cycle and sheds light on the question why we govern the things we govern in the first place.

 

 

On behalf of Ina,

 

Judith van Leeuwen

 

Associate Professor I Environmental Policy Group I Wageningen University

Leeuwenborch I Hollandseweg 1 I 6706 KN Wageningen I The Netherlands I room 2026

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