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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813542103321

Autore

Hamilton Clive

Titolo

Earthmasters : the dawn of the age of climate engineering / / Clive Hamilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-300-19482-X

1-299-16001-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

551.68

Soggetti

Weather control

Climate change mitigation

Environmental geotechnology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Figures and Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Why Geoengineering?""; ""2 Sucking Carbon""; ""3 Regulating Sunlight""; ""4 The Players and the Public""; ""5 Promethean Dreams""; ""6 Atmospheric Geopolitics""; ""7 Ethical Anxieties""; ""8 This Goodly Frame""; ""Notes""; ""Index""