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Pellizzoni, Luigi (2015): Ontological politics in a disposable world. The new mastery of nature

Pellizzoni, Luigi (2015): Ontological politics in a disposable world. The new mastery of nature. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781472434968

Social theory book linked to CE. „The New Mastery of Nature reveals the need for new critical frameworks and oppositional practices, to challenge the rationality of government that lies behind these developments: a rationality that thrives on indeterminacy and an account of materiality as comprised of fluid, ever-changing states, simultaneously agential and pliable, to which social theory increasingly subscribes without questioning enough its underpinnings and implications.“

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FCEA Blog: Solar Radiation Management: Foresight for Governance (SRM4G)

Miranda Boettcher [&] Sean Low. „SRM4G is a 3-workshop project being conducted over the course of 2015 that seeks to develop a process for structuring future-oriented deliberations on SRM governance. The project will apply foresight methods to assess alternative climate response futures in order to anticipate various contexts for mechanisms to govern the development and deployment of SRM technologies.“

Wil C. G. Burns (Ed.) (2015): Climate Change Geoengineering: Philosophical Perspectives, Legal Issues, and Governance Frameworks

Wil C. G. Burns (Ed.) (2015): Climate Change Geoengineering: Philosophical Perspectives, Legal Issues, and Governance Frameworks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

„The book asks: When, if ever, are decisions to embark on potentially risky climate modification projects justified? If such decisions can be justified, in a world without a central governing authority, who should authorize such projects and by what moral and legal right? If states or private actors undertake geoengineering ventures absent the blessing of the international community, what recourse do the rest of us have?“

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FCEA Blog: Reflecting on the “Berlin Declaration”

Andy Parker (with Oliver Morton and George Collins). „The most prominent controversy at CEC14 was the introduction of a document – the “Berlin Declaration” –that those attending could choose to support. The document, drafted by representatives of the Oxford Geoengineering Programme, suggested some steps forward for governing solar geoengineering research.“

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