Editing of Special Issue of Risk Analysis on Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions with Harthorn amp Satterfield Exploring relevance of CNS work on upstream risk perceptions for the issue of climate geoengineering ID: 291799
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IRG 3: April 2011-March 2012Editing of Special Issue of Risk Analysis on Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions (with Harthorn & Satterfield)Exploring relevance of CNS work on ‘upstream’ risk perceptions for the issue of climate geoengineering Analysing new deliberative data on public perceptions of solar radiation management (the UK’s SPICE project)
Pidgeon, N, et al. (in press) Exploring early responses to geoengineering. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (A).Pidgeon, Parkhill, Corner and Vaughan. (under review) Deliberating stratospheric aerosols for climate geoengineering.
Deliberating Geoengineering Aim: Explore public responses to stratospheric aerosols for solar radiation management and the SPICE deployment mechanism. Methodology: Modified CNS-IRG3 workshops lasting 1.5 days (in Cardiff, Norwich, Nottingham). Participants were navigated through several stages which funnelled down from climate change, to specific geoengineering approaches, to an aerosol deployment mechanism (the SPICE stratospheric aerosols ‘test-bed’ trial see Figure). Findings: Few participants were comfortable with the idea of solar radiation management as a response to climate change – although limited research was not ruled out if research governance concerns could be addressed. Impacts: The public dialogue work was used by the UK’s Science and Engineering Research Councils in a ‘responsible innovation’ process for evaluating the SPICE proposal.
Figure Copyright:
Hugh Hunt (used with permission)
CNS-UCSB International Collaboration with the UK