Climate Change Geoengineering:Philosophical Perspectives, Legal Issues, and Goveance Frameworks-Wow! eBook

Climate Change Geoengineering:Philosophical Perspectives, Legal Issues, and Goveance Frameworks

Author: Wil C. G. Bus (Editor), Andrew L. Strauss (Editor)

Publisher: ‎ Cambridge University Press

Edition: N/A

Publication Date: 2013-07-22

Language: English

Paperback: 328 pages

ISBN-10: 1107023939

ISBN-13: 9781107023932

Book Description

The inteational community is not taking the action necessary to avert dangerous increases in greenhouse gases. Facing a potentially bleak future, the question that confronts humanity is whether the best of bad alteatives may be to counter global warming through human-engineered climate interventions. In this book, eleven prominent authorities on climate change consider the legal, policy, and philosophical issues presented by geoengineering. The book asks:When, if ever, are decisions to embark on potentially risky climate modification projects justified? If such decisions can be justified, in a world without a central goveing authority, who should authorize such projects and by what moral and legal right? If states or private actors undertake geoengineering ventures absent the blessing of the inteational community, what recourse do the rest of us have?

Book Description

In this book, eleven prominent authorities on climate change consider the legal, policy and philosophical issues presented by geoengineering.

About the Author

Dr Wil Bus is the Associate Director of the Energy Policy and Climate Program at The Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Joual of Inteational Wildlife Law and Policy and as Co-Chair of the Inteational Environmental Law Committee of the American Branch of the Inteational Law Association. He is also the former Co-Chair of the Inteational Environmental Law Interest Group of the American Society of Inteational Law, and Chair of the Inteational Wildlife Law Interest Group of the Society. He has held academic appointments at Williams College, Colby College, Santa Clara University School of Law, and the Monterey Institute of Inteational Studies, Middlebury College. Prior to becoming an academic, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs for the State of Wisconsin, and worked in the non-govemental sector for twenty years, including as Executive Director of the Pacific Center for Inteational Studies.
Andrew Strauss is the Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development and a Professor of Law at Widener University School of Law. Professor Strauss is co-author of the fourth edition of Inteational Law and World Order, and his articles have appeared in inteational jouals such as Foreign Affairs, the Harvard Joual of Inteational Law and the Stanford Joual of Inteational Law. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School and taught on the law faculties of the National University of Singapore and Rutgers Camden Law School. In addition, he has been a lecturer at the European Peace University in Austria, served as the Director of the Geneva/Lausanne Inteational Law Institute and the Nairobi Inteational Law Institute and been an Honorary Fellow at New York University School of Law’s Center for Inteational Studies.

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