Engineering an artful and ethical solution to the problem of global warming

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 821-837

  Ralston, Shane J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environmental ethics; Geoengineering; Global warming

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 71249138153     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: 15411338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2009.00419.x     Document Type: Article

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