Hi Panagiota, I would be happy to answer some of your questions, unfortunately I'll be unavailable for the next couple of weeks - please let me know if I can help out.
Josh Horton joshuahorton...@gmail.com On May 20, 2:18 pm, Panagiota Stathaki <pswrite...@yahoo.com> wrote: > My name is Panagiota Stathaki and I am a Master’s student at the VU > University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I am sending this message > because of your knowledge and interest in geoengineering. I would be > interested in your opinion on this topic. > > My research thesis is on the social responsibility of geoengineering > experimental research, focused on cloud albedo enhancement. I am > investigating how experimental research on geoengineering can be > organized in order to explore the opportunities of preventing climate > change in a socially responsible manner. My supervisors are Prof. dr. > Arthur Petersen and dr. Eleftheria Vasileiadou. > > I have already had a few interviews, but in order to have a complete > picture of this topic I would appreciate your inputs. > > I am open to taking phone interviews or sending my questions via > email. The duration of a phone interview is expected to be around 30 > minutes. It would be unobtrusive and would take place at the date and > time of your convenience. The questions that I am seeking answers to > are: > > The answers to the questions will be anonymised, to ensure no link > between responses and specific individuals. > > Following are questions concerning the elements of organizing such > experiments > > 1. Should developing countries be involved in such research? If yes, > how? Through which funding mechanisms could they be involved? > 2. Do you see a role for international coordination of research on > cloud albedo enhancement? If yes, under which actor? For instance the > UN, IPCC, other authority? > 3. Which actors from the scientific community, do you think, need to > be involved in geoengineering research? What should their discipline > be? > 4. What should be the role of the private sector (private companies) > in deployment/experimentation of such schemes? > 5. Should the governments be involved in mechanisms for managing > geoengineering? Should they for example regulate the private sector's > research? > 6. During research funding decisions for geoengineering should > stakeholder participation be taken into account? > 7. Are the existing legal instruments enough to cover such > experiments, or are new ones in need? > 8. Do you think that existing agencies can/should be responsible for > organizing such experiments or are new agencies in need? > 9. What, do you think, is the level of responsibility of the > institutes conducting these experiments? How do you think they can > take responsibility? For instance with insurance or compensation > schemes? > 10. Many are discussing about the openness of results with respect to > geoengineering research. This could create problems for establishing > authorship claims. It could also be difficult when companies are > involved in the experimentation and deployment. What are your thoughts > on this? > 11. Do you think that internet, for instance open access journals, > can play a role in openness of results of geoengineering research? > > I would like to thank you very much for your time and interest. > > What is your specialization and location? > Would you be interested in being notified about the outcomes from this > project? (If yes-email address?) > Do you know anyone else who would be interesting to interview with > respect to this topic. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
