Understanding experts’ views and risk perceptions on carbon capture and storage in three European countries
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- 作者：Farid Karimi ; Nadejda Komendantova
- 关键词：Carbon capture and storage ; Risk perception ; Experts ; CCS ; Culture
- 刊名：GeoJournal
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：82
- 期：1
- 页码：185-200
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- 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
- 刊物主题：Human Geography; Geography, general; Environmental Management;
- 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1572-9893
- 卷排序：82
文摘
The challenge of making the transition to a sustainable energy regime is not limited to engineering; it has important social and political dimensions. Therefore, implementation of new technologies, such as carbon capture and storage (CCS), requires not only economic and technical capacities but also an understanding of social factors. These factors include experts’ views and risk perceptions. Understanding them will contribute to the risk governance of CCS by demonstrating who is concerned about what and why with respect to CCS and how risk perception and stakeholders’ concerns vary in different countries. This research is based on analysis and mapping of data collected from case studies of three countries: Germany, Norway and Finland. Our analysis shows that in countries where opposition to CCS is the strongest, like Germany, risk perceptions can be driven by such factors such as the lack of trust and doubts about the need of the project. At the same time as in countries with moderate opposition, such as Norway or Finland, risk perceptions are more connected with the risk for investment. We also conclude that the strongest polarization in risk perceptions is among NGOs in different countries, followed by scientists. The positions of private sector stakeholders and government are more homogenous. Such large variation in risk perceptions of experts could be influenced by several factors, including cultural orientation, attitudes and views of stakeholders, and the social, political and technical settings for deployment of technology in each country.