Public Participation and Norm Formation for Risky Technology: Adaptive Governance of Solar-Radiation Management

in Climate Law
Authors: Cymie R. Payne1, Rachael Shwom2 and Samantha Heaton3
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1 Rutgers University
2 Rutgers University
3 Rutgers University
Online Publication Date:
26 Oct 2015
Volume/Issue:
Volume 5: Issue 2-4
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/18786561-00504005
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As the international community comes to grips with climate destabilization, it has begun to evaluate potentially risky technologies, such as geoengineering, to mitigate the effects of warming. The geoengineering technology known as solar-radiation management (srm) poses many risks. There is also great uncertainty about whether society will decide to deploy srm in the future. Managing these risks and uncertainties requires adaptive governance that will be responsive to new knowledge and changing social systems. We analyse the dimensions of public participation and norm-formation mechanisms of current srm-related legal regimes and governance proposals. We find that there is a need for the social sciences, including legal and governance scholars, to engage with the theoretical and pragmatic challenges of engaging diverse and vulnerable publics fairly and efficiently.

Climate Law

A Journal on Climate Change and the Law

eISSN:
1878-6561
Print ISSN:
1878-6553
Publisher:
Brill | Nijhoff
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Page Count:
210–251
Subjects:
Environmental & Energy Law, International Law
Copyright:
© 2015 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands 2015

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