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FAB-GGR – Social and political dimensions of greenhouse gas removal

3S / October 22, 2019

FAB-GGR is an interdisciplinary project that aims to better understand the real-world feasibility and consequences of large-scale afforestation and biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) approaches to greenhouse gas removal (GGR).

As part of FAB-GGR, 3S researchers – Jason Chilvers, Laurie Waller, Irene Lorenzoni – are studying the social and political feasibility of developing afforestation and BECCS for large-scale GGR. The research will map the issues and forms of societal engagement shaping the development of afforestation and BECCS in the UK, aiming to analyse the feasibility of developing these GGR approaches from the perspectives of governance and society.

The research involves a mixed-methods approach that combines digital methods research with qualitative case analysis and interviews. The study will also aim to test some issue map visualisations in small-scale participation experiments.

The interdisciplinary FAB-GGR research team is led by Dr Naomi Vaughan and involves scientists, engineers and social scientists from the University of East Anglia, the University of Manchester, the University of Exeter and the University of Aberdeen with support from project partners at the Met Office. The project is part of a £8.3 million Greenhouse Gas Removal Research Programme, which will evaluate the potential and wider implications of a variety of options for large-scale removal of greenhouse gases. The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ERSC) funds the Greenhouse Gas Removal programme.

 

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October 22, 2019 in 3S strands, Climate Change, Current Projects, Knowledges and expertise, Participation and engagement, Policy and governance. Tags: Climate Change, greenhouse gas removal, issue mapping, mapping participation, public engagement, responsible innovation, technology

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Policy and Governance

Research in this theme explores the underlying causes, governance challenges and potential policy solutions in the transition to sustainability, particularly with reference to the role of science. ‘Governing’ refers to activities that seek to guide, steer, control or otherwise manage human societies. ‘Governance’ describes the patterns that emerge from these governing activities: administrative organisations such as government ministries, formal policies and programmes, and specific instruments such as emissions trading, and also more informal activities of non-state actors operating alongside, and sometimes wholly independent of, governments. While basic science surrounding societal problems may be rarely contested amongst scientists, debates about how to govern the responses have become more intense. The main barriers to collective action are often political and governance-related, not scientific or technological. Research in this theme aims to better understand this complexity and explore potential solutions.

Participation and Engagement

The rise of public participation in science and the environment in all its forms – ranging from institutionalised invited spaces of engagement to those that are uninvited and citizen-led – has the potential to empower citizens, enhance social justice and the quality of decisions, but also to close down, disempower and exclude. Research under this theme involves the study of democratic experiments and innovations in participatory governance. These are reconfiguring relationships between science, policy and society and coproducing knowledges, appraisals and commitments in response to sustainability challenges.

Knowledges and Expertise

Different types of knowledge are important when seeking to understand environmental issues: alongside scientific and technical knowledge, experiential, embodied, indigenous and local knowledges are often called upon in public discourse. The boundaries between these different forms of knowledge are often fluid and they can be expressed through different types of expertise. Confrontations between these different forms of knowledge and expertise can trigger public controversy. This research strand of the 3S Group studies the origins of these different forms of environmental knowledge and how their associated types of expertise are authorised in various social settings. This understanding can contribute to an improved grasp of the dynamics between evidence and policymaking and to appreciating the role and limits of knowledge in contributing to social and cultural change.

Climate Change

Understandings of climate science, climate framings, and societal engagement with climate constitute the focus of 3S research in this area. We work constructively with stakeholders, policy makers, publics and other actors to open up areas for deeper understanding of environmental change.

This includes how climate change relates to people’s daily lives, and how policy making may be better understood as exchanges and evolution of discourses over time. Through mixed methods and theoretical approaches, 3S explores the responses to extreme events, innovative policy developments, opened spaces for rethinking of mitigation options, and perceptions of climate in relation to the marine environment.

About 3S

We conduct world-leading research on the social and political dimensions of environment and sustainability issues. 3S is based in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK.

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