GLOBAL CLIMATE GOVERNANCE
; MORAL HAZARD
; DESIGN
; RISK
WOS学科分类:
Environmental Studies
; Political Science
WOS研究方向:
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
; Government & Law
英文摘要:
Nonstate actors appear to have increasing power, in part due to new technologies that alter actors' capacities and incentives. Although solar geoengineering is typically conceived of as centralized and state-deployed, we explore highly decentralized solar geoengineering. Done perhaps through numerous small high-altitude balloons, it could be provided by nonstate actors such as environmentally motivated nongovernmental organizations or individuals. Conceivably tolerated or even covertly sponsored by states, highly decentralized solar geoengineering could move presumed action from the state arena to that of direct intervention by nonstate actors, which could in turn, disrupt international politics and pose novel challenges for technology and environmental policy. We conclude that this method appears technically possible, economically feasible, and potentially politically disruptive. Decentralization could, in principle, make control by states difficult, perhaps even rendering such control prohibitively costly and complex.
1.Univ Calif Los Angeles, Sch Law, Emmett Inst Climate Change & Environm, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA 2.NYU, Dept Environm Studies, New York, NY 10003 USA 3.NYU, Robert F Wagner Grad Sch Publ Serv, New York, NY 10003 USA
Recommended Citation:
Reynolds, Jesse L.,Wagner, Gernot. Highly decentralized solar geoengineering[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS,2019-01-01