Dear all, We have a new paper out online in *Public Understanding of Science* that may be of interest to members of the group:
*Deliberative Mapping of options for tackling climate change: Citizens and specialists 'open up' appraisal of geoengineering <http://pus.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/09/12/0963662514548628.full.pdf+html>* *Abstract* Appraisals of deliberate large–scale interventions in the Earth’s climate system, known collectively as ‘geoengineering’, have largely taken the form of narrowly–framed and exclusive expert analyses that prematurely ‘close down’ upon particular proposals. Here we present the findings from the first ‘upstream’ appraisal of geoengineering to deliberately ‘open up’ to a broader diversity of framings, knowledges and future pathways. We report on the citizen strand of an innovative analytic–deliberative participatory appraisal process called Deliberative Mapping. A select but diverse group of sociodemographically representative citizens from Norfolk (UK) engaged in a deliberative multi–criteria appraisal of geoengineering proposals relative to other options for tackling climate change, in parallel to symmetrical appraisals by diverse experts and stakeholders. Despite seeking to map divergent perspectives, a remarkably consistent view of option performance emerged across both the citizens’ and the specialists’ deliberations where geoengineering proposals were outperformed by mitigation alternatives. The work builds upon our earlier papers *‘Opening up’ geoengineering appraisal: Multi-Criteria Mapping of options for tackling climate change <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378013001179>* published last year in *Global Environmental Change* and *A review of climate geoengineering appraisals* <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fdoi%2F10.1002%2Fwcc.197%2Fabstract&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFzjozJAXTB2JBO9VntHueMSydyjw> published in *WIREs Climate Change*. Best wishes, Rob Bellamy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
