Ethical aspects of climate engineering

Ethical Aspects of Climate Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Betz, Gregor ^a,b   Cacean, Sebastian ^c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Shared Research Group   (Germany)

^c LOBSTER ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Argument Map; Climate Engineering; Climate Ethics; Ethics; Geoengineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891574654     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.5445/KSP/1000028245     Document Type: Book

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