Robert Chris

Systems Thinking for Geoengineering Policy

How to Reduce the Threat of Dangerous Climate Change by Embracing Uncertainty and Failure

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780367271237
• ISBN-10: 0367271230
• Artikelnr.: 56925309

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