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Waller, Laurie, Rayner, Tim and Chilvers, Jason 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9238-1653
(2023)
Searching for a public in controversies over carbon dioxide removal: An issue mapping study on BECCS and afforestation.
Science, Technology, & Human Values, 48 (1).
pp. 34-67.
ISSN 0162-2439
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Abstract
The roles digital media-technologies play in raising public issues relating to emerging technologies and their potential for engaging publics with science and policy assessments is a lively field of inquiry in Science and Technology Studies (STS). This paper presents an analysis of controversies over proposals for the large-scale removal of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CDR). The study combines a digital method (web-querying) with document analysis to map debates about two CDR approaches: bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and afforestation. In the first step, we locate actors using the web to engage with BECCS and afforestation and map their alignments in relation to competing framings of CDR. In a second step, we examine the devices deployed by UK-based actors to evidence and contest the feasibility of BECCS and afforestation. Our analysis shows that policy distinctions between “natural” and “engineered” CDR are used flexibly in practice and do not map neatly onto actor engagement with BECCS and afforestation. We highlight the predominance of cross-cutting techno-economic expertise and argue that framings of CDR as a solution to governing climate change may contribute to public disengagement from climate policy processes. The paper reflects on methods for studying controversies, publics, and issues emerging around processes of technoscientific assessment.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding information: The Natural Environment Research Council funded the research reported on in this paper (grant number: NE/P019951/1). The research also benefited from UKERC Phase 4 funding (EPSRC grant reference EP/S029575/1). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Science, Society and Sustainability University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Oct 2021 01:20 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Aug 2023 00:39 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/81535 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/01622439211043568 |
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