Mapping the landscape of climate engineering

Oldham, Paul; Szerszynski, Bronislaw; Stilgoe, Jack; Brown, Calum; Eacott, Bella; Yuille, Andy

doi:10.1098/rsta.2014.0065

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“…Crutzen's publication invigorated academic discussion about and investigation of geoengineering techniques. The publication of his article was followed by a significant increase in the number of academic publications on the topic of geoengineering [ Oldham et al ., ]. Several national and multinational geoengineering projects were established subsequently, including the German Research Foundation (DFG) Priority Programme on Climate Engineering, the EU‐funded Implications and Risks of Engineering Solar Radiation to Limit Climate Change (IMPLICC) Project, the European Transdisciplinary Assessment of Climate Engineering (EuTRACE), the Mechanism and Impacts of Geoengineering Project (supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China), the Norwegian Research Council's EXPECT project, the UK Research Council funded Integrated Assessment of Geoengineering Proposals (IAGP) and Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE) projects, and the international Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP).…”

Section: Answering Crutzen's Call: a Decade Of Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Crutzen's publication invigorated academic discussion about and investigation of geoengineering techniques. The publication of his article was followed by a significant increase in the number of academic publications on the topic of geoengineering [Oldham et al, 2014]. Several national and multinational geoengineering projects were established subsequently, including the German Research Foundation ( Although the United States does not have a national geoengineering research program, research is being carried out at individual institutions: a research group dedicated to geoengineering has been established at Harvard University, where currently a broader research program is being set up, and researchers at several other US institutions including Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cornell University, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Rutgers University, the University of Montana and the University of Washington are investigating aspects of geoengineering from various disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.…”

Section: Answering Crutzen's Call: a Decade Of Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reflecting upon 10 years of geoengineering research: Introduction to the Crutzen + 10 special issue

Boettcher

Schäfer

2017

Earth's Future

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Ten years ago, Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen called for research into the possibility of reflecting sunlight away from Earth by injecting sulfur particles into the stratosphere. Across academic disciplines, Crutzen's intervention caused a surge in interest in and research on proposals for what is often referred to as "geoengineering"-an unbounded set of heterogeneous proposals for intentionally intervening into the climate system to reduce the risks of climate change. To mark the 10-year anniversary of the publication of Paul Crutzen's seminal essay, this special issue reviews the developments in geoengineering research since Crutzen's intervention and reflects upon possible future directions that geoengineering research may take. In this introduction, we briefly outline the arguments made in Paul Crutzen's (2006) contribution and describe the key developments of the past 10 years. We then proceed to give an overview of some of the central issues in current discussions on geoengineering, and situate the contributions to this special issue within them. In particular, we contend that geoengineering research is characterized by an orientation toward speculative futures that fundamentally shapes how geoengineering is entering the collective imagination of scientists, policymakers, and publics, and a mode of knowledge production that recognizes the risks that may result from new knowledge and that struggles with its own socio-political dimensions.

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Section: Answering Crutzen's Call: a Decade Of Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Crutzen's publication invigorated academic discussion about and investigation of geoengineering techniques. The publication of his article was followed by a significant increase in the number of academic publications on the topic of geoengineering [Oldham et al, 2014]. Several national and multinational geoengineering projects were established subsequently, including the German Research Foundation ( Although the United States does not have a national geoengineering research program, research is being carried out at individual institutions: a research group dedicated to geoengineering has been established at Harvard University, where currently a broader research program is being set up, and researchers at several other US institutions including Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cornell University, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Rutgers University, the University of Montana and the University of Washington are investigating aspects of geoengineering from various disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.…”

Section: Answering Crutzen's Call: a Decade Of Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflecting upon 10 years of geoengineering research: Introduction to the Crutzen + 10 special issue

Boettcher

Schäfer

2017

Earth's Future

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“…al. 2012 is likely to open up more detailed landscapes and facilitate tracking of emerging developments [85,86].…”

Section: The Impacts Of Patent Activitymentioning

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Synthetic Biology - Mapping the Patent Landscape

Oldham

Hall

2018

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This article presents the global patent landscape for synthetic biology as a new and emerging area of science and technology. The aim of the article is to provide an overview of the emergence of synthetic biology in the patent system and to contribute to future research by providing a high quality tagged core dataset with 7,424 first filings and 71,887 family members. This dataset is intended to assist with evidence based exploration of synthetic biology in the patent system and with advancing methods for the analysis of new and emerging areas of science and technology.The starting point for the research is recognition that traditional methods of patent landscape analysis based on key word searches face limitations when addressing new and emerging areas of science and technology. Synthetic biology can be broadly described as involving the design, synthesis and assembly of biological parts, circuits, pathways, cells and genomes. As such synthetic biology can be understood as emerging from a combination of overlaps and convergences between existing fields and disciplines, such as biotechnology, genetic engineering, protein engineering and systems biology. More precisely, synthetic biology can be understood as the synthetic phase of molecular biology and genetic engineering. This presents the problem that key word strategies may radically overestimate activity because they involve terms that are widely used in underlying fields that are contributing to synthetic biology.In response to this problem we combined anthropology, scientometrics and data science to map authors from scientific publications on synthetic biology into the international patent system. We mapped 10,816 authors into the international patent system and identified 2,450 authors of articles on synthetic biology who are also inventors in the period to December 2017. By combining this data with citation information and a baseline keyword strategy we are able to describe the global patent landscape for synthetic biology and the wider patent universe in which synthetic biology is situated.This article describes the main features of the global landscape and provides the tagged dataset as a contribution to evidence based debate on intellectual property and synthetic biology and methodological development. We anticipate that the data will prove useful in informing international policy debates on synthetic biology under the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

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“…Trends in scientific publications on climate engineering (number of publications per year, indexed in Web of Science). Source: Oldham et al []…”

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Was breaking the taboo on research on climate engineering via albedo modification a moral hazard, or a moral imperative?

Lawrence

Crutzen

2017

Earth's Future

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The topic of increasing the reflectivity of the Earth as a measure to counteract global warming has been the subject of high-level discussions and preliminary research since several decades, though prior to the early 2000s there was only very limited research on the topic. This changed in the mid-2000s, particularly following the publication of a special section of Climatic Change with a lead paper by Crutzen [2006], which posited the idea of stratospheric aerosol injections as a possible solution to a policy dilemma. The discussions around the publication of Crutzen [2006] demonstrated how contentious the topic was at that time. The special section of Climatic Change contributed to breaking the "taboo" on albedo modification research that was perceived at that time, and scientific publications on the topic have since proliferated, including the development of several large national and international projects, and the publication of several assessment reports over the last decade. Here we reflect on the background and main conclusions of the publications in 2006, the developments since then, and on some of the main developments over the next decade that we anticipate for research and dialogue in support of decision-making and policy development processes.

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Mapping the landscape of climate engineering

Cited by 75 publications

References 66 publications

Reflecting upon 10 years of geoengineering research: Introduction to the Crutzen + 10 special issue

Reflecting upon 10 years of geoengineering research: Introduction to the Crutzen + 10 special issue

Synthetic Biology - Mapping the Patent Landscape

Was breaking the taboo on research on climate engineering via albedo modification a moral hazard, or a moral imperative?

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