Robert Chris

Systems Thinking for Geoengineering Policy

How to reduce the threat of dangerous climate change by embracing uncertainty and failure

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Produktbeschreibung

Systems Thinking for Geoengineering Policy is the first book to theorise geoengineering in terms of complex adaptive systems theory and to argue for the theoretical imperative of adaptive management as the default methodology for an effective low risk means of confronting the inescapable uncertainty and surprise that characterise potential climate futures. The book illustrates how a shift from the conventional Enlightenment paradigm of linear reductionist thinking, in favour of systems thinking, would promote policies that are robust against the widest range of plausible futures rather than optimal only for the most likely, and also unlock the policy paralysis caused by making long term predictions of policy outcomes a prior condition for policy formulation. It also offers some systems driven reflections on a global governance network for geoengineering.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781138841178
• ISBN-10: 113884117X
• Artikelnr.: 41609666

Autorenporträt

Robert Chris is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Geography, The Open University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Contextualising Geoengineering 2. Geoengineering - the technologies and
their 'times' 3. The Limits of Reductionism 4. Systems thinking 5.
Geoengineering and uncertainty 6. Geoengineering: complexity in
policymaking 7. Downgrading geoengineering from solution to contribution 8.
Geoengineering governance network (GGN) 9. Drawing the threads together