Due to ongoing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from energy production, industry, transport, and agriculture, it is clear that reducing emissions alone will probably not be enough to achieve climate targets. Accordingly, in addition to avoidance, the focus is shifting to targeted climate interventions, which are summarized under the term geoengineering. The focus here is on solar radiation management (SRM) approaches.
SRM requires the availability and reliable provision of resources, application capacities, and the associated supply chains. This includes, among other things, the scaling of production capacities, storage and handling concepts, and multimodal transport networks to testing and potential application platforms. Many of these elements are currently hardly available. Players from research, the public sector, industry, and logistics must therefore decide whether, when, where, and to what extent production and logistics networks for SRM should be designed, piloted, or scaled up if necessary.
For this purpose, a structured literature analysis of models for the design of production and logistics networks for the large-scale application of SRM is to be carried out within the framework of a bachelor's thesis or a student research project. The aim of the thesis is to identify and classify published articles. In this context, research gaps relating to the planning and dimensioning of SRM production and logistics networks are to be identified.
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