What do people think when they think about solar geoengineering? A review of empirical social science literature, and prospects for future research

Earth's Future

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 536-542

  Burns, Elizabeth T ^a   Flegal, Jane A ^b   Keith, David W ^a,c   Mahajan, Aseem ^d   Tingley, Dustin ^d   Wagner, Gernot ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abrupt rapid climate change; climate engineering; GLOBAL CHANGE; Impacts of global change; solar geoengineering; solar radiation management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997190792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23284277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000461     Document Type: Note

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