14.01.2013, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

"[A] half day workshop held in conjunction with the 24th Colloquium of African Geology (CAG24). The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and SRMGI will be co-convening this workshop"

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Abelkop, Adam D. K.; Carlson, Jonathan C. (2012): Reining in Phaëthon’s Chariot: Principles for the Governance of Geoengineering. In: University of Iowa - Legal Studies Research Paper 21 (27), pp. 101–145.

"This paper argues that there is an urgent need for the international community to establish a governance framework to control geoengineering experimentation and implementation. All proposals currently under discussion are likely to have some adverse, possibly severe, impacts on ecosystems or climate"

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"One idea, touted by permaculturist Mark Shepard, is to change the farming paradigm away from annual crops to perennial crops.  The concept of replanting crops every year is the norm in farming culture, but we don’t often stop to ask if that is the most efficient and environmentally friendly methodology."

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Weitzman, Martin L. (2012): A Voting Architecture for the Governance of Free-Driver Externalities. With Application to Geoengineering. In: NBER Working Paper Series (18622).

"This paper develops the main features of a "free driver" externality in a simple model based on the asymmetric consequences of type-I and type-II errors."

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