The Governance Challenges of Regional SRM and Cloud Seeding

This chapter introduces the different technologies addressed in the book. The first part presents regional solar radiation management (SRM) and provides an overview of the governance challenges associated with regional SRM research, development, and deployment. The second part presents two cloud seeding techniques—precipitation enhancement and hail suppression—and gives an overview of the legal issues raised by the development of these techniques. Building upon existing literature, the last part shows that the growing interest in regional SRM points out the need to further analyse the applicability of cloud seeding governance to regional SRM.