Command-and-control: Alternative futures of geoengineering in an age of global weirding

Futures

Volumn 57, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-13

  Sweeney, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative futures; Anthropocene; Climate change; Geoengineering; Global weirding; Technopocene

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUTURE PROSPECT; OCEAN DUMPING; SULFATE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

ALGAE;

EID: 84897024034     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2013.12.005     Document Type: Article

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