[PCC 586] Steve Rayner (Oxford): "Geoengineering Governance"

Start Date/Time: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 3:30 PM
Ending Date/Time: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 4:50 PM
Location: JHN 075

Speaker: Steve Rayner, Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Oxford University
Title:Geoengineering Governance

This week's speaker is Steve Rayner, one of the world's top experts on science and society. Professor Rayner is the James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization, and the Director of the Insitute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford.

http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/insis/people/Pages/SteveRayner.aspx

Professor Rayner worked on governance issues for the Royal Society report on geoengineering. His talk "Geoengineering Governance" will draw on Chapter 4 (Governance) report, which can be downloaded from

http://royalsociety.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=10768

see also:http://royalsociety.org/Geoengineering-the-climate/