Investigating the link between knowledge and perception of CO 2 and CCS: An international study

Dowd, Anne-Maree; Itaoka, Kenshi; Ashworth, Peta; Saito, Aya; Best-Waldhober, Marjolein de

doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2014.06.009

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“…The lecture took approximately 30 minutes, and each session was given by the same person to provide all students with exactly the same information. Such information could also have been provided by a questionnaire, group interactive process, informative website, social media website, site visit, and so on (Baird and Fisher, 2005, Hobman and Ashworth, 2013, Dowd et al, 2014. Nevertheless, in this study, a classroom lecture was the preferred method of information transfer because classroom lecture is the dominant method used in the Flemish educational system.…”

Section: H5: Attitude Strength Behaves As a Mediator Between Perceptimentioning

confidence: 86%

Young people’s acceptance of bioenergy and the influence of attitude strength on information provision

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This study investigated the effects of using a standardized PowerPoint lecture to provide young people with nuanced information about bioenergy. The study's aim was to understand the relationship between knowledge and participants' perception of bioenergy, and the relationship of the latter to participants' attitude strength and intention to use and learn about bioenergy. Data were collected from 715 participants using a survey instrument that contained mainly Likert-scale questions. Data were then processed using partial least squares structural equation modelling. Results show that providing such information increases knowledge about bioenergy, but does relatively little to create a more positive perception of bioenergy. In turn, having a more positive view about bioenergy would lead to a higher intention to use bioenergy. Attitude strength was found to mediate the previous relationship and decreases the strength of the relationship between perception and intention to use. Results also show that the lecture weakly contributed to building attitude strength, rendering opinion change less likely in the future. We conclude that listening to a lecture on bioenergy slightly improves people's perception of bioenergy, makes it more likely that people maintain such a disposition, and translates into a slightly higher intention to use bioenergy.

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Section: H5: Attitude Strength Behaves As a Mediator Between Perceptimentioning

confidence: 86%

Young people’s acceptance of bioenergy and the influence of attitude strength on information provision

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“…Mitigation and low emission technologies are an integral component of any emissions reduction strategy where reliance on fossil fuel is high [48]. CCS presents one potential solution amongst a suite of possible solutions [21,49,50].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Knowing the aspects of the local context, including the social, cultural, economic and political characteristics of a community, is fundamental from a baseline measurement perspective [107]. Drawing upon CCS research, the importance of information in developing overall knowledge and understanding of the CCS technology, particularly with regards to accessibility, complexity, diversity, quality and tone, is indicated [48,106]. For ease of understanding, different audiences require information materials that are tailored to their needs, is user specific, credibly sourced, of high quality, relevant and factual [6,46,108].…”

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Social Science Insights for the BioCCS Industry

2015

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BioCCS is a technology gaining support as a possible emissions reduction policy option to address climate change. The process entails the capture, transport and storage of carbon dioxide produced during energy production from biomass. Globally, the most optimistic energy efficiency scenarios cannot avoid an average temperature increase of +2 °C without bioCCS. Although very much at the commencement stage, bioCCS demonstration projects can provide opportunity to garner knowledge, achieve consensus and build support around the technology's properties. Yet many challenges face the bioCCS industry, including no guarantee biomass will always be from sustainable sources or potentially result in carbon stock losses. The operating environment also has no or limited policies, regulations and legal frameworks, and risk and safety concerns abound. Some state the key problem for bioCCS is cultural, lacking in a 'community of support', awareness and credibility amongst its own key stakeholders and the wider public. Therefore, the industry can benefit from the growing social science literature, drawing upon other energy and resource based industries with regard to social choice for future energy options. To this end, the following scoping review was conducted in order to ascertain gaps in existing public perception and acceptance research focusing on bioCCS.

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“…All articles from days with a quasi-week sum of equal or more than 40 were included within the quantitative content analysis. A cut-off at 40 articles was chosen to include the 10 peak periods, which reduced the number of samples to a manageable but representative size that still covers the different phases of the issueattention cycle (Downs, 1972).…”

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The takeover of science communication: how science lost its leading role in the public discourse on carbon capture and storage research in daily newspapers in Germany

Schneider

2019

Geosci. Commun.

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Abstract. CCS (carbon capture and storage) is an important issue within the context of climate-change mitigation options and has played a major role in the agendas of scientists, researchers, and engineers. While media representations of CCS in Germany from 2004 to 2014 demonstrated the significant mediatization of the topic, this cannot be ascribed to science. Instead, CCS media coverage in Germany has been dominated by other stakeholder groups. While CCS is linked to various industry sectors, such as cement and steel production, the German debate has dominantly focussed on the coal and energy branches. This study looks at the role of science and science public relations (PR) within the German public debate by analysing the media coverage of CCS in daily newspapers from 2004 to 2014. If science wishes to remain proactive within science communication, new approaches for future science PR have to be deduced to strengthen, once again, the role of science communication. Among these approaches, it is important to pursue a more differentiated understanding of target audiences and regional concerns. Science PR has to accept that science itself is no longer the only stakeholder and actor within science communication.

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Investigating the link between knowledge and perception of CO 2 and CCS: An international study

Cited by 47 publications

References 26 publications

Young people’s acceptance of bioenergy and the influence of attitude strength on information provision

Young people’s acceptance of bioenergy and the influence of attitude strength on information provision

Social Science Insights for the BioCCS Industry

The takeover of science communication: how science lost its leading role in the public discourse on carbon capture and storage research in daily newspapers in Germany

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