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EARTHS FUTURE
Volume 4, Issue 11, Pages 536-542Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000461
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- Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (FICER)
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Public views and values about solar geoengineering should be incorporated in science-policy decisions, if decision makers want to act in the public interest. In reflecting on the past decade of research, we review around 30 studies investigating public familiarity with, and views about, solar geoengineering. A number of recurring patterns emerge: (1) general unfamiliarity with geoengineering among publics; (2) the importance of artifice versus naturalness; (3) some conditional support for certain kinds of research; and (4) nuanced findings on the moral hazard and reverse moral hazard hypotheses, with empirical support for each appearing under different circumstances and populations. We argue that in the coming decade, empirical social science research on solar geoengineering will be crucial, and should be integrated with physical scientific research.
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