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Supporting Psychosocial Processes towards a Sustainable Energy System: the Case of CO2 Geological Storage
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CCS as part of a global cultural development for environmentally sustainable energy production
No full textAbstractAbstract Cultural transformation is needed to allow the world’s population to make the right decisions for dealing with greenhouse gases. The authors have conducted an explorative study into the social representations and cultural models that could facilitate or hinder the necessary decisions for the implementation of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Some key cultural factors have been identified with regard to the role of scientists, the relationship with the authorities, and the connection among the different social institutions. In addition it is highlighted how the research approach used can interact with and foster a new cultural representation of environmental problems and solutions
Deliberative decarbonisation? Assessing the potential of an ethical governance framework for low-carbon energy through the case of carbon dioxide capture and storage
Full text linkIn this paper we explore the potential of a framework of ethical governance for low-carbon energy. Developing mainly in the field of information and communications technology, ethical governance is concerned with the marginalisation of ethical and moral issues during development and deployment of new technologies. Focusing on early carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) projects, we argue that a focus on technical arguments in the governance of low-carbon energy similarly risks sidelining deeper issues such as fairness, justice, and values. We believe an ethical governance approach does have potential for low-carbon energy technologies like CCS, but also that climate change mitigation technologies pose particular challenges for the implementation of ethical governance
Towards a low carbon society. Emotional Text Analysis (ETA) as a support for a European partnership
No full textInforming People about CCS: A Review of Social Research Studies
No full textThis contribution examines studies on CCS public perception which have investigated the introduction of CCS information to the public. Studies published between 2007 and 2011 are considered and analysed with regard to research methods and tools and the construction of information. The relationship within which the communication of information takes place and content characteristics of the information emerge as two key aspects to be developed both from a methodological and an operational point of view
Topic and concerns related to the potential impacts of CO2 storage: results from a stakeholders questionnaire
Full text linkThis paper illustrates the results of a questionnaire designed to explore the full range of topics and concerns related to the potential impacts of CO2 geological storage. The questionnaire was compiled online by 45 European and international stakeholders from 16 different countries, including researchers, operators and regulators. The results provide a comprehensive picture of the variety of aspects that the respondents consider important from the point of view of impacts and long term safety of storage sites. The themes span from impacts on the environment to socio-economic and operational such as for instance building and management of storage sites
‘Tell me what you Think about the Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide’: Towards a Fuller Understanding of Public Perceptions of CCS
No full textThis paper argues that a focus on values, trust and context is vital to build a fuller understanding of public perceptions of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS). Empirical data from interviews conducted in the UK and Italy as part of the EU FP7-funded ECO2 project is presented to illustrate how publics and stakeholders often evaluate the geological storage of carbon dioxide in terms of its relation to their broader world views, rather than purely in terms of the perceived techno-scientific risks of the technology
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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