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Phil Macnaghten and Richard Owen describe the first attempt to govern a climate-engineering research project.

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1. Phil Macnaghten is professor of geography at Durham University, UK.,
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2. Richard Owen is chair in responsible innovation at the University of Exeter Business School, UK.,
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Macnaghten, P., Owen, R. Good governance for geoengineering.Nature 479, 293 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/479293a

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1. Chris Exley 24 November 2011, 12:46
   Last week I sent an email to the corresponding author of this article asking about the nature of the particles which are planned to be used in these geoengineering projects. I have not received any reply. Several months ago I asked a contact I got via the EPSRC website, someone called Pidgeon at Cardiff, the same question. They eventually told me that they were not able to answer my simple question!
   Does anybody out there know the answer to this?
   Chris Exley
2. Phil Macnaghten 5 December 2011, 12:22
   Dear Chris
   I am afraid your email did not make it onto my server. To answer your question I propose you contact the PI on the SPICE project, Dr Matt Watson. You can contact him on Matt.Watson@bristol.ac.uk. Please note that the SPICE project is proposing to use water for the field test and that the nature of the particles themselves was not part of the Stagegate review process. I hope this helps.
   Phil Macnaghten