Deutsch
 
Datenschutzhinweis Impressum
  DetailsucheBrowse

Datensatz

DATENSATZ AKTIONENEXPORT
Zur Ablage hinzufügen
  Lokale TagsFreigabegeschichteDetailsÜbersicht

Freigegeben
Zeitschriftenartikel

Solar Geoengineering and Democracy

Urheber*innen

Horton,  Joshua B.
External Organizations;

Reynolds,  Jesse L.
External Organizations;

Buck,  Holly Jean
External Organizations;

Callies,  Daniel
External Organizations;

/persons/resource/115

Schäfer,  Stefan
IASS Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam;

Keith,  David W.
External Organizations;

Rayner,  Steve
External Organizations;

Externe Ressourcen
Es sind keine externen Ressourcen hinterlegt
Volltexte (frei zugänglich)
Es sind keine frei zugänglichen Volltexte in RIFSpublic verfügbar
Ergänzendes Material (frei zugänglich)
Es sind keine frei zugänglichen Ergänzenden Materialien verfügbar
Zitation

Horton, J. B., Reynolds, J. L., Buck, H. J., Callies, D., Schäfer, S., Keith, D. W., Rayner, S. (2018): Solar Geoengineering and Democracy. - Global environmental politics, 18, 3, 5-24.
https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00466


Zitierlink: https://publications.rifs-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_3513888
Zusammenfassung
Some scientists suggest that it might be possible to reflect a portion of incoming sunlight back into space to reduce climate change and its impacts. Others argue that such solar radiation management (SRM) geoengineering is inherently incompatible with democracy. In this article, we reject this incompatibility argument. First, we counterargue that technologies such as SRM lack innate political characteristics and predetermined social effects, and that democracy need not be deliberative to serve as a standard for governance. We then rebut each of the argument’s core claims, countering that (1) democratic institutions are sufficiently resilient to manage SRM, (2) opting out of governance decisions is not a fundamental democratic right, (3) SRM may not require an undue degree of technocracy, and (4) its implementation may not concentrate power and promote authoritarianism. Although we reject the incompatibility argument, we do not argue that SRM is necessarily, or even likely to be, democratic in practice.