Society and climate change: A social analysis of new technology

该项目旨在探索技术应对气候变化可能带来的意想不到的社会后果和破坏。应对气候变化通常涉及想象中的技术创新，包括地球工程（或改变全球环境），太阳能、风能或生物燃料等新能源形式，以及碳交易等社会技术。技术创新和对技术的幻想都可能破坏社会和经济生活，而且它们本身也会被部署过程中涉及的社会过程所破坏。这项调查可以使知情的、可接受的和可能的技术适应更有可能。

The project aims to explore the likely unintended social consequences and disruption of technological responses to climate change. Responses to climate change often involve imagined technological innovation, including geo-engineering (or the modification of the global environment), newer forms of energy such as solar, wind or biofuels, and social technologies such as carbon trading. Both technological innovations and fantasies about technologies can disrupt social and economic life, and are themselves disrupted by the social processes involved in deployment. This investigation could make informed, acceptable, and possible technological adaptation more possible.