Geo-engineering, Governance, and Social-Ecological Systems
Critical Issues and Joint Research Needs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4240657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor Galaz (0000-0002-7303-8849, Stockholm Resilience Centre, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conservation Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087 |
| Publisher | Resilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.5751/es-04677-170124 |
| OpenAlex | W2331600539 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 22 |
The debate about the possibilities to engineer the Earth's climate has changed drastically in the last years. Suggestions of large-scale technological interventions to combat climate change that a decade ago would have been discarded as science fiction are slowly moving into the center of international climate change discussions, research, and politics. In this article, I elaborate three joint key challenges to geo-engineering research from a resilience perspective, with a special emphasis on governance issues. First, I discuss the need to understand geo-engineering proposals from a "planetary boundaries" perspective. Second, I elaborate why the notion of Earth stewardship and geo-engineering are not necessarily in conflict, but instead could be viewed as complementary approaches. Last, I discuss the critical need to explore an institutional setting that is strong enough to weed out geo-engineering proposals that carry considerable ecological risk, but still allow for novelty, fail-safe experimentation, and continuous learning. These issues are critical for our understanding of how to effectively govern global environmental risks, complex systems, and emerging technologies in the Anthropocene
Anthropocene · Climate change · Corporate governance · Earth system science · Economics · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Management · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Engineering · Environmental Science · Space exploration and regulation · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life · Ecology
Agroecological transitions
Probing the interfaces between the social sciences and social-ecological resilience
Sustainability transformations
Como SE Governa A AmazÔNIA? Redes sociais e governança ambiental em Unidades de Conservação
Matching scope, purpose and uses of planetary boundaries science
Solar geoengineering research in the global public interest
Learning from the Climate Change Debate to Avoid Polarisation on Negative Emissions
An earth system governance perspective on solar geoengineering
How to conceptualize and operationalize resilience in socio-ecological systems
The politics and governance of research into solar geoengineering
Environmental Ethics
An ocean of surprises – Trends in human use, unexpected dynamics and governance challenges in areas beyond national jurisdiction
Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems
The Decision Phases Framework for Public Engagement
The Anthropocene Concept in the Natural and Social Sciences, the Humanities and Law – A Bibliometric Analysis and a Qualitative Interpretation (2000–2020)
Techno-moral change through solar geoengineering
Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene
Resilience perspectives in sustainability transitions research
Towards a socio-techno-ecological approach to sustainability transitions
Geoengineering
Understanding humans in the Anthropocene
Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions
The Incredible Economics of Geoengineering
Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt
A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas
Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems
A safe operating space for humanity
Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management
Perfect Order
Planetary boundaries’ — exploring the challenges for global environmental governance
Resilience implications of policy responses to climate change
Public perceptions and governance of controversial technologies to tackle climate change
Taboos and Forest Governance
The Anthropocene
Tipping Toward Sustainability
Empowerment and the challenge of applying transition management to ongoing projects
Navigating the Back Loop
Fixing the Sky
Transition Management for Sustainable Development
From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds
Resilience Thinking
Planetary Boundaries
A Framework for Clarifying "Participation" in Participatory Research to Prevent its Rejection for the Wrong Reasons
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |