Dear all, I have a new working paper in the Climate Geoengineering Governance (CGG) project working paper series that may be of interest to members of the group:
Safety first! Framing and governing climate geoengineering experimentation <http://www.geoengineering-governance-research.org/perch/resources/workingpaper14bellamysafetyfirst.pdf> *Abstract* Experiments for technology proposals to deliberately intervene in the Earth’s climate system to moderate anthropogenic climate change, collectively known as geoengineering, have begun. Recent controversies have demonstrated that they are more than simply a technical concern: they are political, social and ethical ones too. With more experiments planned, it is imperative that the ways in which such ambitions are understood and used by different participants in discourses on geoengineering are scrutinised by social science. For the first time, this article examines framings of geoengineering experimentation using a corpus approach to thematic discourse analysis. The analysis identifies eleven distinct framings with twenty–four distinct sub–frames under four thematic constructs: knowledge, precaution, control and society. These framings are discussed in the light of research into divergent epistemic and institutional cultures. The article concludes by offering a ‘clumsy’ solution space for geoengineering governance and climate response governance at large. 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.
