Public views of Scotland's path to decarbonization: Evidence from citizens' juries and focus groups

Ostfeld, Rosemary; Reiner, David

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111332

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“…This is a comparative case study of energy pathways deliberated in three urban cities in Saskatchewan in 2017. The approach taken here is similar to that adopted in Ostfeld and Reiner (2020) for the case of Scotland, another energy-rich jurisdiction. Case studies are appropriate for exploring social phenomenon (Yin 2014) and provide analytical boundedness for comparison (Elger 2010).…”

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Diverse community energy futures in Saskatchewan, Canada

Hurlbert

Osazuwa-Peters

Rayner

et al. 2020

Clean Techn Environ Policy

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This research explores peoples' place attachment and context surrounding power production and energy futures. Facilitated, deliberative focus groups were conducted as comparative case studies in three fossil fuel-dependent cities in Saskatchewan Canada: Estevan (situated next to the provincial centers of coal, oil and gas production), Saskatoon (situated more northerly and furthest from coal, oil and gas production) and the capital city of Regina. (situated between the other two communities). This study supports the conclusions: (1) participants believed the focus groups improved their knowledge surrounding power production; (2) although there is strong support for wind and solar power production, there is a gap in implementation; and (3) place-based location impacts perceptions of power production sources. Participants were surveyed before and after focus group meetings to explore the perceptions and preferences of power productions sources. All three communities favored renewables in the order of solar and wind. Estevan, supported carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) to a greater degree and perceived much lower risk surrounding CCS than the other two communities. This may be explained by information gaps in this community. Participants were far less likely to believe a climate crisis is occurring, and while recognizing health concerns surrounding coal, they spent considerably more time discussing the loss of coal and its impact on their economy. Saskatoon, the community furthest from coal oil and gas production, spent considerable time discussing renewables, and when asked about coal, oil and gas identified the need to transition and retrain dependent workers. Although the uranium sector is present in Saskatchewan and in closer proximity to Saskatoon, there was little knowledge or support for new small modular nuclear reactors.

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Diverse community energy futures in Saskatchewan, Canada

Hurlbert

Osazuwa-Peters

Rayner

et al. 2020

Clean Techn Environ Policy

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“…Building on the growing body of experience and reflection on dialogue and deliberation in climate change policy (OECD, 2020b;Ostfeld & Reiner, 2020;Ottinger et al, 2017;Pidgeon, 2020; also e.g., United Kingdom: Climate Assembly UK, 2020; France: Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat, 2021), storylistening can play a significant role in future arrangements for public dialogue and for deliberative democracy. Such arrangements can enable the intersection of evidence, anticipations and decision-making in public reasoning around climate change, where there are particularly hard and urgent challenges around democracies' capacity to engage with plural forms of evidence, systems thinking, complexity and uncertainty (Runciman, 2019)-challenges which storylistening is well-suited to help tackle.…”

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Storylistening: How narrative evidence can improve public reasoning about climate change

Dillon

Craig²

2022

WIREs Climate Change

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Stories have cognitive value-listened to carefully and expertly, they provide knowledge. That knowledge is captured and presented in narrative evidencethe product of the expert act of critical engagement with stories, and with others' engagement with stories. Storylistening is the theory and practice of gathering narrative evidence to inform decision-making, especially in relation to public reasoning, as part of a pluralistic evidence base. Storylistening is necessary to counter the political deployment of partial, selective, or misinterpreted narrative evidence. There are four ways in which stories can contribute to public reasoning about climate change. Stories play a role in reframing the "idea" of climate change, as well as being integral to many of the new disciplines, perspectives and knowledges drawn in as relevant by that reframing. Stories create and cohere collective identities and climate change beliefs and behavior. Narrative models complement and supplement computational models, creating an ensemble of models that more adequately covers the gaps that result from only deploying big, global, generalized models. Stories play a crucial role in enabling better anticipation for decision-making, and storylistening can enable the use of narrative evidence from narrative futures methods, as well as perhaps improve the ways scientific evidence about the future is also listened to. Incorporating storylistening into public reasoning about climate change requires the evolution of advisory systems and of the academic humanities, and can play a role in the urgent need to democratize public reasoning about climate change.

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“…Understanding stakeholder perspectives, acknowledging conflicting sets of values, equipping citizens with a common and coherent science-based narrative, and making citizens cocreators in the development of responses to climate change, is a theme of a growing body of work on citizens assemblies [33], citizen science movements [34], urban labs [35], participatory games [36], climate juries [37], and climate commissions [38,39]. By supporting deliberation and engagement (at a level far beyond that which was achieved by the survey is this analysis), these processes are finding success in achieving areas of consensus and support for bold action [37], making a case for Calgary continue its process of engagement with stakeholders around its climate targets.…”

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Beyond Domain-Led Conceptualisations of Urban Zero-Carbon Transitions

Sudmant,

Tierney,

Gouldson

et al. 2023

Academia Environmental Sciences and Sustainability

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Rapid, systemic change is needed to achieve zero emissions, but there is uncertainty about how or where to intervene in urban systems. Drawing on the work of Donella Meadows, we apply a Leverage Points Perspective to identify and characterize points of system-level intervention that emerge from a study of climate action in Calgary, Canada, which was unique in applying a mixed set of academic approaches. Reflecting on Meadows' and other frameworks for conceptualizing complex systems change, we discuss the challenge of conceptualizing change, a task of unique urgency in the context of the climate emergency. Too frequently, we argue, approaches focus attention on specific modes or forms of action seen to have the greatest opportunity for affecting change in place of the complex chains of actors, objects, and processes that collectively are the key to a deep and sustaining transition. We conclude by exploring how the insights of the Leverage Points Perspective and other approaches can be brought together to inform practical action, and by examining how related theoretical work on provisioning systems and applied work on urban Climate Commissions may be drawn on to advance understanding of how to deliver urban systems change.

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Public views of Scotland's path to decarbonization: Evidence from citizens' juries and focus groups

Cited by 20 publications

References 24 publications

Diverse community energy futures in Saskatchewan, Canada

Diverse community energy futures in Saskatchewan, Canada

Storylistening: How narrative evidence can improve public reasoning about climate change

Beyond Domain-Led Conceptualisations of Urban Zero-Carbon Transitions

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