气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Public perceptions of geoengineering research governance: An experimental deliberative approach

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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.06.004
	Public perceptions of geoengineering research governance: An experimental deliberative approach
	Bellamy R.; Lezaun J.; Palmer J.
发表日期	2017
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	45
英文摘要	Recent attempts to conduct experiments in climate ‘geoengineering’ have demonstrated the deeply controversial nature of this field of scientific research. Social scientists have begun to explore public perceptions of geoengineering, and have documented a significant degree of concern over the effective governance of research and experimentation in this area. Yet, public perception on what constitutes a legitimate geoengineering experiment and how it should be governed remains under-researched. In this article we report on a series of experimental deliberative workshops with members of the public designed to elicit and explicate diverse understandings of geoengineering experiments and their governance. In contrast to previous methods of invited public deliberation, which privilege egalitarian-consensual models of discourse and decision-making, we test a novel approach that places majoritarian, individualistic, and consensual forms of public deliberation on an equal footing. Our study suggests that the perceived controllability of experimental interventions is central to public views on their acceptability, but that controllability is itself a complex, multifaceted quality, drawing together a set of heterogeneous concerns about the purpose and repercussions of scientific work. The citizens who participated in our workshops employed four criteria to adjudicate the acceptability of geoengineering experiments: (1) the degree of containment; (2) the uncertainty surrounding experimental outcomes; (3) the reversibility of impacts; and (4) the scientific purity of the enterprise. We theorize that the public legitimacy of geoengineering experiments depends on variable, context-specific combinations of these criteria, and that technical determinations of the proper 'scale’ or ‘location’ for geoengineering research will be poor predictors of the sorts of public concerns that will be triggered by further experimentation in this area. © 2017 The Authors
英文关键词	Climate engineering; Controllability; Experimentation; Geoengineering; Governance; Public perceptions
学科领域	decision making; experimental study; governance approach; perception
语种	英语
scopus关键词	decision making; experimental study; governance approach; perception
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117234
作者单位	Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PN, United Kingdom; School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bellamy R.,Lezaun J.,Palmer J.. Public perceptions of geoengineering research governance: An experimental deliberative approach[J],2017,45.
APA	Bellamy R.,Lezaun J.,&Palmer J..(2017).Public perceptions of geoengineering research governance: An experimental deliberative approach.Global Environmental Change,45.
MLA	Bellamy R.,et al."Public perceptions of geoengineering research governance: An experimental deliberative approach".Global Environmental Change 45(2017).