Overview
- Examines the potential of geoengineering technologies to contribute to the goal of restricting global warming to within 2°C of preindustrial levels
- Discusses carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SDR)
- Places the technologies discussed in their proper social, political, and ethical contexts
- Provides valuable insights for audiences ranging from researchers and industry experts to policy makers and university-level students
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Biochar
- Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
- Climate Change Remediation
- Climate Change Remediation Sustainability
- Cloud Albedo Enhancement
- Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
- Geoengineering Policy
- Solar Radiation Management
- Stratospheric Aerosols solar Radiation Management
- Sunshades Solar Radiation Management
- Climate change management
- climate change
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geoengineering Responses to Climate Change
Book Subtitle: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
Editors: Tim Lenton, Naomi Vaughan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5770-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5769-5Published: 14 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9964-1Published: 28 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5770-1Published: 15 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 199
Topics: Geophysics and Environmental Physics, Climate Change Management and Policy, Climate Change, Earth System Sciences, Inorganic Chemistry