Olsson, L.; Jerneck, A. (2018): Social fields and natural systems. Integrating knowledge about society and nature. In: E&S 23 (3). DOI: 10.5751/ES-10333-230326.

"We make three contributions. First, we identify important reasons for the incommensurability between the social and natural sciences, and propose remedies for overcoming some of the difficulties in integrative research. Second, we show how sustainability science will benefit from drawing more deeply on—and thus more adequately incorporate—social science understandings of society and the social, including field theory. Third, we illustrate the suggested approach of social fields and natural systems in two examples that are highly relevant for both sustainability science and sustainability itself, one on climate change adaptation and one on geoengineering."

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"A report released by C2G2 at the end of May is an interesting exercise in bringing two important global challenges into conversation.  Carbon Removal and Solar Geoengineering: Potential Implications for Delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals is a noble effort to tie what policy makers should do about climate change with what they should do about poverty and global development."

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Thiele, Leslie Paul (2018): Geoengineering and sustainability. In Environmental Politics 2 (1), pp. 1–20. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2018.1449602.

"Geoengineering is regarded by advocates as a creative and responsible technological option in the face of a climate emergency. Critics often see it as a hubristic attempt to play God, with disastrous consequences for the planet and humanity. These antipodal perspectives are represented by the ideal types of Prometheans and Gaians. Prometheans and Gaians typically talk past each other. The geoengineering debate can be made more fruitful by well articulating their respective positions and subsequently situating them in the discourse of sustainability."

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Schwarz-Herion, Odile (2015): Urgent Ecological Problems for the NSP. In Odile Schwarz-Herion, Abdelnaser Omran (Eds.): Strategies Towards the New Sustainability Paradigm. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 121–140. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-14699-7_11

"Another issue to be controversially discussed is climate engineering (CE) which can be used to the benefit of mankind by mitigating extreme weather patterns, but might also be abused for military purposes or by eco-terrorists to damage the climate, the natural environment, humankind, and wildlife."

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