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Systems Thinking for Geoengineering Policy: How to reduce the threat of dangerous climate change by embracing uncertainty and failure

Systems Thinking for Geoengineering Policy: How to reduce the threat of dangerous climate change by embracing uncertainty and failure

Chris, Robert

Hardcover

Series: Earthscan Science in Society

Business GeneralEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 113884117X
ISBN13: 9781138841178
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 24 2015
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Systems Thinking for Geoengineering Policy is the first book to theorise geoengineering in terms of complex adaptive systems theory and to argue for the theoretical imperative of adaptive management as the default methodology for an effective low risk means of confronting the inescapable uncertainty and surprise that characterise potential climate futures. The book illustrates how a shift from the conventional Enlightenment paradigm of linear reductionist thinking, in favour of systems thinking, would promote policies that are robust against the widest range of plausible futures rather than optimal only for the most likely, and also unlock the policy paralysis caused by making long term predictions of policy outcomes a prior condition for policy formulation. It also offers some systems driven reflections on a global governance network for geoengineering.

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