Toward ethical norms and institutions for climate engineering research

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Morrow, David R ^a,c   Kopp, Robert E ^b   Oppenheimer, Michael ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate engineering; Ethics; Geoengineering; Governance; Research ethics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS;

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHICS; GAS CONCENTRATION; GEOENGINEERING; GOVERNANCE; POTENTIAL RESPONSE; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 70749129437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045106     Document Type: Article

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