Solar Geoengineering: The View from Just War/Securitization Theories

Abstract As the world continues to fail reduce and control global surface temperatures, use of solar radiation management (SRM) technology by one actor or a small coalition actors is becoming increasingly likely. Yet, most social scientific literature on geoengineering does not tend systematically engage with this possibility; scholars focus either governance banning SRM usage research altogether. On margins debate, handful researchers have sought bring insights from just war tradition issue unilateral minilateral usage. This article concerned contribution war/securitization theories can make our understanding debate surrounding climate engineering. It scrutinizes deepens existing attempts examine moral permissibility usage, including perspective Just Securitization Theory.