Social residence permit IV
Description
Thinking about the social residence permit of technology, lecture IV of the Rathenau Institute by drs.ir. Monique Riphagen, Researcher in the Technology Assessment Department, title: Climate Engineering.
In Climate Engineering, climate becomes the object of deliberate making. This marks a new phase in the control of our natural environment. However, this control is always partial and the consequences of intervention are never fully predictable. The precautionary principle is the starting point for dealing with this uncertainty. With uncertainty, restraint is appropriate: we should refrain from actions that may have irreversible negative consequences. But climate engineering involves recovering from earlier human intervention. This probleatises the idea of precaution. Proponents of climate engineering see it as a last resort against global warming. Considering climate engineering as a possibility changes the place of technology in the world
Monique joined the Rathenau Institute in October 2008. In 2009, Monique Riphagen was involved in organising the World Wide Views on Global Warming project, a global citizens' forum on climate change. Research on consensus and dissensus in science, politics and media is currently being conducted as a result of this project, which she directs and contributes to. She is also collaborating on the Energy 2030 project.
Speaker(s)
Education and career:
Monique Riphagen studied environmental hygiene at Wageningen Agricultural University (1995) and philosophy at Nijmegen Catholic University (1996). After her studies, she was an added lecturer in philosophy of science in Wageningen for several years, after which she moved to the Studium Generale of Eindhoven University of Technology to organise lectures, workshops and other activities in the fields of technology and society, sustainability and philosophy (1998-2001). To get some hands-on experience, she worked as an environmental policy officer for the municipality of Landsmeer (2001-2005) and as a policy officer for sustainability and sustainable building at the Environmental Department IJmond (2005-2008). Because science and research started to itch again, she started working at the Rathenau Institute as researcher energy and climate from 1 October 2008
Location
Utrecht
Organiser
Philosophy & Technology
Name and contact details for information
Further information from drs.ing. Henk Uijttenhout (vz), tel: 070 - 3875293 / 06 - 26715554 or via the e-mail address below