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  title info:
    title: Geoengineering, the Anthropocene and the End of Nature
  name:
    name part: Baskin, Jeremy.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIII, 271 p. 13 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: "Climate change is altering social worlds as much as physical environments, not least by changing what we imagine 'solutions' to climate change could look like. Baskin offers a penetrating analysis of one of these new 'climate solutions': solar geoengineering. He makes very clear that at the centre of this new socio-technical imaginary lie questions of knowledge, values and power... Solar geoengineering technologies ask questions about what it means to be human, what type of world we are, and should be, making. Read this impressive book before others take ownership of your future." - Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography, University of Cambridge, UK "Baskin demonstrates why solar geoengineering, a climate solution that even its ardent advocates find troubling, may still be an idea whose time has come. To make sense of this paradox, he shows, we have to understand solar geoengineering not merely as a technology but as a powerful driver of the human imagination." - Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard University, USA. This book takes a critical look at solar geoengineering as an acceptable means for addressing climate change. Baskin explores the assumptions and imaginaries which animate 'engineering the climate' and discusses why this climate solution is so controversial. The book explains geoengineering's past, its revival in the mid-2000s, and its future prospects including its shadow presence in the Paris climate accord. The main focus however is on dissecting solar geoengineering today - its rationales, underpinning knowledge, relationship to power, and the stance towards nature which accompanies it. Baskin explores three competing imaginaries associated with geoengineering: an Imperial imaginary, an oppositional Un-Natural imaginary, and a conspiratorial Chemtrail imaginary. He seeks to explain why solar geoengineering has struggled to gain approval and why resistance to it persists, despite the support of several p…
  table of contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Geoengineering's past: from Mastery to Taboo -- Chapter 3. The re-emergence of solar geoengineering -- Chapter 4. Competing imaginaries of solar geoengineering -- Chapter 5. Knowledge-Power-Values -- Chapter 6. Future imaginings -- Chapter 7. Conclusion.
  note: by Jeremy Baskin.
  subject:
    topic: Technology-Sociological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Environmental policy
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Environmental geography
  subject:
    topic: Science and Technology Studies
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Policy
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Politics
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change Management and Policy
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Geography
  classification: HM846-851
  classification: 303.483
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      title: Springer eBooks
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