Geoengineering: Re-making Climate for Profit or Humanitarian Intervention?

Development and Change

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 253-270

  Jean Buck, Holly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; DEVELOPMENT AID; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; RESEARCH;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; RESEARCH;

EID: 84857280677     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01744.x     Document Type: Article

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