Geoengineering Classification

2.3 Classification of Geoengineering
Some actions which produce environmental improvements have been beneficial health effects similar to public goods. Likewise, some forms of environmental devastation resulting in ill health can be categorized as public bad, according to (Tisdell, 2009). These may well be of a local regional or global nature. For instance, a measure that reduces the populations of disease-carrying mosquito type supply local or regional public goods. It is predicted that global climate change will reduce human health, which can be regarded as a public bad.
The discussions on whether or not geoengineering is a deliberate manipulation of global environmental systems is still at the embryonic stages. Some early work published

One of the most common differences is based on two features: excludability and rivalrousness. In other words, goods are categorized contingent upon whether people can be barred from consuming them (excludability) and whether they can be consumed by persons without affecting their availability to others (rivalrousness). The problem with public goods is that tend to have a free rider problem. Meaning due to its availability it is impossible to prevent anyone from enjoying a good, once it has been provided. Therefore leading to lack of incentive for people to pay for the good because they can consume it without paying. In the case of geoengineering, this thesis intends to explore arguments and counterarguments, correlating geoengineering as a global public good. In doing so one can draw closer to answering the above research question and determining if it is a good option for climate change in lieu of the fact it is or is not a public

Most geoengineering tests are conducted by purely technological involvement. Therefore in conducting a full planetary-scale trial to the Earth 's biological, chemical and physical systems, as so to affect everyone globally, generationally and down to species level; creates an enormous technical challenge to researchers, engineers, and scientists. Gardiner (2012) believe this to be a ridiculously demanding constraint on scientific research. Hence as a global public good, geoengineering proposes a challenge on the technological level. A possible solution to this is to involve a social side of mediation involving political and economic policies which could be less costly and