The Social Dynamics of Carbon Capture and Storage : Understanding CCS Representations, Governance and Innovation

ISBN-13: 9781849713146 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 328 str.

Nils Markusson; Simon Shackley; Benjamin Evar

Opis

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has emerged rapidly as a crucial technological option for decarbonising electricity supply and mitigating climate change. Great hopes are being pinned on this new technology but it is also facing growing scepticism and criticism. This book is the first to bring together the full range of social and policy issues surrounding CCS shedding new light on this potentially vital technology and its future.

Spis treści

1. Introduction.  2. An introduction to key developments and concepts in CCS: history, technology, economics and law.  3. Introduction to section on perceptions and representations.  4 public understanding of and engagement with CCS.  5. Colonising the future: the case of CCS.  6. Beyond ‘For or Against’: environmental NGO-evaluations of CCS as a climate change solution.  7. Introduction to section on governance.  8. The evolving international CCS community.  9. Up and down with CCS: the issue-attention cycle and the political dynamics of decarbonisation.  10. Technology management in the face of scientific uncertainty: a case-study of the CCS Test Centre, Mongstad.  11. Introduction to section on innovation.  12. CCS: a disruptive technology for innovation theory.  13. Learning in CCS demonstration projects: social and political dimensions.  14. Conclusions.