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Geoengineering Responses to Climate Change

Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Tim Lenton

    1. Hatherly Laboratories, Biosciences College of Life and, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

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  2. Naomi Vaughan

    1. , School of Environmental Sciences, Univerity of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    • Timothy M. Lenton, Naomi E. Vaughan
    Pages 1-7

  3. Sunshades for Solar Radiation Management

    • Daniel J. Lunt
    Pages 9-20

  4. Stratospheric Aerosols for Solar Radiation Management

    • Ben Kravitz
    Pages 21-38

  5. Solar Radiation Management, Cloud Albedo Enhancement

    • Stephen H. Salter
    Pages 39-51

  6. Ocean Fertilization for Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere

    • Philip W. Boyd
    Pages 53-72

  7. Biochar, Tool for Climate Change Mitigation and Soil Management

    • Simon Shackley, Saran Sohi, Rodrigo Ibarrola, Jim Hammond, OndÅ™ej MaÅ¡ek, Peter Brownsort et al.
    Pages 73-140

  8. Carbon Dioxide Sequestration, Weathering Approaches to

    • R. D. Schuiling
    Pages 141-167

  9. Geoengineering Policy and Governance Issues

    • Sean Low, Nigel Moore, Zhewen Chen, Keith McManamen, Jason J. Blackstock
    Pages 169-191

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 193-197
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Failure by the international community to make substantive progress in reducing CO2 emissions, coupled with recent evidence of accelerating climate change, has brought increasing urgency to the search for additional remediation approaches.  This book presents a selection of state-of-the-art geoengineering methods for deliberately reducing the effects of anthropogenic climate change, either by actively removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere or by decreasing the amount of sunlight absorbed at the Earth’s surface.  These methods contrast with more conventional mitigation approaches which focus on reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide. Geoengineering technologies could become a key tool to be used in conjunction with emissions reduction to limit the magnitude of climate change.  Featuring authoritative, peer-reviewed entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, this book presents a wide range of climate change remediation technologies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hatherly Laboratories, Biosciences College of Life and, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

    Tim Lenton

  • , School of Environmental Sciences, Univerity of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

    Naomi Vaughan

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