Corry, O orcid.org/0000-0002-7249-0913 and Kornbech, N (2021) Geoengineering: a new arena of international politics. In: Chandler, D, Müller, F and Rothe, D, (eds.) International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Agendas, New Agencies and New Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan , Switzerland , pp. 95-122. ISBN 978-3-030-53013-6
Abstract
In this chapter, we introduce geoengineering as a new arena of international politics and explain why hopeful technical explorations of alternative climate strategies have not properly factored in the international. We ask how international politics might affect potential development and deployment of geoengineering techniques, and conversely how their emergence could change the international system itself, introducing new dilemmas and modes of interaction characteristic of the Anthropocene. Throughout the chapter, we will draw on two high-profile areas of geoengineering research, namely stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) (see Boxes 1 and 2), to illustrate some of the issues that geoengineering poses for IR, both theoretically and in practice. The chapter proceeds via three sections, addressing three key questions. First, what are geoengineering technologies? Second, why has the international not been factored in properly? Third, how might global climate intervention interact with the international? To conclude, we consider what ‘the international’ implies for theorising IR in the ‘Anthropocene’ more widely.
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2021 14:41 |
Last Modified: | 31 May 2023 10:52 |
Published Version: | https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030530136#abo... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-030-53014-3 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:173453 |