Public engagement on solar radiation management and why it needs to happen now

Carr, Wylie; Preston, Christopher J.; Yung, Laurie; Szerszynski, Bronislaw; Keith, David W.; Mercer, Ashley

doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0763-y

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“…In line with Carr et al (2013) and Pidgeon et al (2013), we maintain that laypeople can lead well-reasoned argumentation even with very limited input from experts.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 61%

“…Their experimental study found that lay opinions, in this case regarding carbon capture and storage, could easily be changed by letting respondents perform irrelevant and annoying tasks for a few minutes. By contrast, Carr et al (2013) and Pidgeon et al (2013) claim that it is not a prerequisite that participants have extensive knowledge of the technology in question, as even lay knowledge and limited input of basic knowledge from an expert can lead to well-reasoned argumentations and positions. Pidgeon et al (2012) maintain that laypeople tend to draw on a range of cultural narratives and personal experiences that can be related to the scientific topic being discussed in order to construct an understanding.…”

Section: Public Understanding Of Geoengineering: An Emerging Researchmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Questioning the technological fix to climate change – Lay sense-making of geoengineering in Sweden

Wibeck

Hansson

Anshelm

2015

Energy Research & Social Science

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This paper explores how Swedish laypeople make sense of emerging ideas of the large-scale deliberate technical manipulation of the global climate, known as geoengineering (GE). The paper is based on semi-structured focus group interviews with open-ended questions, allowing participants to express their spontaneous thoughts about GE. Although the focus group participants expressed great concern about climate change, GE was largely met with a sceptical, negative response. Participants perceived GE to: have negative environmental side-effects, address the symptoms rather than causes of climate change, create moral hazard and give rise to various governance challenges. Participants did not just reject the idea of GE outright; rather, social representations started to form in the focus groups through testing and negotiating arguments both pro and contra GE research and deployment.

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“…In line with Carr et al (2013) and Pidgeon et al (2013), we maintain that laypeople can lead well-reasoned argumentation even with very limited input from experts.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 61%

Section: Public Understanding Of Geoengineering: An Emerging Researchmentioning

confidence: 97%

Questioning the technological fix to climate change – Lay sense-making of geoengineering in Sweden

Wibeck

Hansson

Anshelm

2015

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…These studies map various and sometimes contradictory findings of public views on climate engineering. For instance, the Australian and New Zealand surveys (Wright et al 2014) find generally negative views of climate engineering, particularly SRM techniques, while a few surveys in Canada, the UK and the USA report some support for SRM research (Carr et al 2013). The UK focus group findings of Macnaghten and Szerszynski (2013), however, indicated that participants became more sceptical of climate engineering when faced with 'more realistic' descriptions of SRM.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making sense of climate engineering: a focus group study of lay publics in four countries

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This study explores sense-making about climate engineering among lay focus group participants in Japan, New Zealand, the USA and Sweden. In total, 23 qualitative focus group interviews of 136 participants were conducted. The analyses considered sense-making strategies and heuristics among the focus group participants and identified commonalities and variations in the data, exploring participants' initial and spontaneous reactions to climate engineering and to several recurrent arguments that feature in scientific and public debate (e.g. climate emergency). We found that, despite this study's wide geographical scope, heterogeneous focus group compositions, and the use of different moderators, common themes emerged. Participants made sense of climate engineering in similar ways, for example, through context-dependent analogies and metaphorical Climatic Change (2017)

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“…A recent US opinion survey on gene editing demonstrated that, in spite of differentiated attitudes, there exists a near-unanimous call for public engagement [58]. Concerning geoengineering, the experts [59] and the public [60] are in agreement about public engagement as well. This is particularly crucial since the experts are keenly aware of the limited coverage of the discussions thus far [16].…”

Section: Broadening Domestic Conversationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unintended Side Effects of Digital Transition: Perspectives of Japanese Experts

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Abstract:The core of the digital transition is the representation of all kinds of real-world entities and processes and an increasing number of cognitive processes by digital information and algorithms on computers. These allow for seemingly unlimited storage, operation, retrieval, and transmission capacities that make digital tools economically available for all domains of society and empower human action, particularly combined with real-world interfaces such as displays, robots, sensors, 3D printers, etc. Digital technologies are general-purpose technologies providing unprecedented potential benefits for sustainability. However, they will bring about a multitude of potential unintended side effects, and this demands a transdisciplinary discussion on unwanted societal changes as well as a shift in science from analog to digital modeling and structure. Although social discourse has begun, the topical scope and regional coverage have been limited. Here, we report on an expert roundtable on digital transition held in February 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, our discussions highlight the importance of cultural contexts and the need to bridge local and global conversations. Although Japanese experts did mention side effects, their focus was on how to ensure that AI and robots could coexist with humans. Such a perspective is not well appreciated everywhere outside Japan. Stakeholder dialogues have already begun in Japan, but greater efforts are needed to engage a broader collection of experts in addition to stakeholders to broaden the social debate.

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Public engagement on solar radiation management and why it needs to happen now

Cited by 55 publications

References 20 publications

Questioning the technological fix to climate change – Lay sense-making of geoengineering in Sweden

Questioning the technological fix to climate change – Lay sense-making of geoengineering in Sweden

Making sense of climate engineering: a focus group study of lay publics in four countries

Unintended Side Effects of Digital Transition: Perspectives of Japanese Experts

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