Diakun, Aladdin Tingling (2015): Clearing the Air on 'Geoengineering' and Intellectual Property Rights. Towards a framework approach. (Master Thesis)

"To untangle the issue, this paper focuses on patents and trade secrets as the most relevant categories of intellectual property, and develops a framework within which to situate IP-related concerns, specifically as related to direct air capture, ocean iron fertilization, and stratospheric aerosol spraying. The paper shows that there is no a priori 'yes or no' answer to the question of whether IPRs are desirable and appropriate for 'geoengineering.' Rather, the question of whether they ought to be encouraged or discouraged is highly conditional. "

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Malm, Andreas (2015): Socialism of barbecue, war communism or geoengineering. Some thoughts on choices in a time of emergency. In Kajsa Borgnäs, Teppo Eskelinen, Johanna Perkiö, Rikard Warlenius (Eds.): The politics of ecosocialism. Transforming welfare. Balsingstoke: Routledge (Routledge explorations in environmental studies), pp. 180–194.

Book chapter on CE. "There is that nagging feeling that a fleet of aeroplanes packed with sulphur is a far more likely scenario than a special Ministry for a Transition to a Low-Carbon Future."

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Factor, Simon (2015): The Experimental Economy of Geoengineering. In Journal of Cultural Economy, pp. 1–16. DOI 10.1080/17530350.2015.1039459.

"To grasp what is at stake in such questions, this paper traces out the marginal history of ocean geoengineering, its correlative ‘green’ economy, and through the deployment of algae as an inventive world-remaking device, their co-formation of the earth as a site of unbounded experimentation – of what I call experiment earth. My argument here is that such methods of geoengineering inject disturbances into the algae-ocean-earth system that do not seek control, but to elicit surprise and explicate the mechanisms of the complex permutations of their unpredictability, where new forms of knowledge and value are created not through the application of preconceived ideas or a process of commensuration, but through the harnessing of anticipation and the generation of surprise."

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Moreno-Cruz, Juan B. (2015): Mitigation and the geoengineering threat. In Resource and Energy Economics 41, pp. 248–263. DOI 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2015.06.001.

"This paper examines the economic issues introduced when geoengineering becomes available in a standard model where strategic interaction leads to suboptimal mitigation. Geoengineering introduces the possibility of technical substitution away from mitigation, but it also affects the strategic interaction across countries: mitigation decisions directly affect geoengineering decisions."

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