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

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 for the first time brings together the range of social and policy issues around CCS to shed new light on this potentially vital technology and its future. It covers many crucial topics: the roles and positions that different publics, NGOs, industry, political parties and media are taking up; the way CCS is organised, supported and regulated; how CCS is being debated and judged; how innovation, demonstration and learning are occurring and being conceptualised and promoted; and the role of CCS in the transition to a low carbon energy future. It draws on a variety of approaches, concepts, methods and themes, and provides new understanding of innovation in the energy and climate change fields. It tackles the many issues in a way that speaks to those concerned not only to understand these developments, but to those who are involved in the scientific and technological work itself, and those charged with evaluating and making decisions relevant to the future of the technology.