Boettcher, Miranda; Schäfer, Stefan (2017): Reflecting upon 10 Years of Geoengineering Research. Introduction to the Crutzen + 10 Special Issue

Boettcher, Miranda; Schäfer, Stefan (2017): Reflecting upon 10 Years of Geoengineering Research. Introduction to the Crutzen + 10 Special Issue. In Earth’s Future. DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000521.

„In this introduction, we briefly outline the arguments made in Paul Crutzen’s 2006 contribution and describe the key developments of the past 10 years. We then proceed to give an overview of some of the central issues in current discussions on geoengineering, and situate the contributions to this special issue within them. In particular, we contend that geoengineering research is characterized by an orientation toward speculative futures that fundamentally shapes how geoengineering is entering the collective imagination of scientists, policymakers, and publics, and a mode of knowledge production that recognizes the risks which may result from new knowledge and that struggles with its own socio-political dimensions.“

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