Social science research to inform solar geoengineering

Joseph E Aldy; Tyler Felgenhauer; William A Pizer; Massimo Tavoni; Mariia Belaia; Mark E Borsuk; Arunabha Ghosh; Garth Heutel; Daniel Heyen; Joshua Horton; David Keith; Christine Merk; Juan Moreno-Cruz; Jesse L Reynolds; Katharine Ricke; Wilfried Rickels; Soheil Shayegh; Wake Smith; Simone Tilmes; Gernot Wagner; Jonathan B Wiener

doi:10.1126/science.abj6517

Social science research to inform solar geoengineering

Science. 2021 Nov 12;374(6569):815-818. doi: 10.1126/science.abj6517. Epub 2021 Nov 11.

Authors

Joseph E Aldy^{1

2

3

4}, Tyler Felgenhauer^{5

6}, William A Pizer², Massimo Tavoni^{7

8}, Mariia Belaia⁹, Mark E Borsuk^{5

6}, Arunabha Ghosh¹⁰, Garth Heutel^{3

11}, Daniel Heyen^{12

13}, Joshua Horton¹⁴, David Keith^{1

15}, Christine Merk¹⁶, Juan Moreno-Cruz^{17

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19

20}, Jesse L Reynolds²¹, Katharine Ricke^{22

23}, Wilfried Rickels¹⁶, Soheil Shayegh⁸, Wake Smith^{1

24}, Simone Tilmes²⁵, Gernot Wagner^{26

27}, Jonathan B Wiener^{2

6

28}

Affiliations

¹ John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
² Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, USA.
³ National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁴ Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, USA.
⁵ Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
⁶ Center on Risk, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
⁷ School of Management, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
⁸ RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Milan, Italy.
⁹ Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, American University, Washington, DC, USA.
¹⁰ Council on Energy, Environment and Water, New Delhi, India.
¹¹ Department of Economics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
¹² Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
¹³ ETH-Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁴ Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
¹⁵ John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
¹⁶ Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany.
¹⁷ School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
¹⁸ Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
¹⁹ Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada.
²⁰ CESifo, Munich, Germany.
²¹ Independent consultant.
²² School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
²³ Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
²⁴ Yale College, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
²⁵ National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA.
²⁶ Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
²⁷ Department of Environmental Studies, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
²⁸ School of Law, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

PMID: 34762479
DOI: 10.1126/science.abj6517

Abstract

What are the benefits and drawbacks, and for whom?.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't