Abstract:
Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is being considered as a way of achieving large-scale removals of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Research on the risks and benefits of different OAE approaches is expanding apace, but it remains difficult to anticipate and appraise the potential impacts to human communities that OAE might generate. These impacts, however, will be critical to evaluating the viability of specific OAE projects. This paper draws on the authors\' involvement in interdisciplinary assessment of OAE (1) to identify the factors that currently limit characterization of potential social impacts and (2) to propose ways of reconfiguring OAE research to better consider these.
摘要:
海洋碱度增强(OAE)被认为是实现从大气中大规模去除二氧化碳的一种方式。对不同OAE方法的风险和收益的研究正在迅速扩展,但是要预测和评估OAE可能对人类社区产生的潜在影响仍然很困难。这些影响,然而,对于评估特定OAE项目的可行性至关重要。本文借鉴了作者参与OAE的跨学科评估(1)以确定当前限制潜在社会影响表征的因素,以及(2)提出重新配置OAE研究以更好地考虑这些因素的方法。