Carbon Capture Technology and Storage in Poland

Social Acceptance and the Energy Transition
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-003-86301-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Energy Studies

The book describes the results of AGaStor Project social research carried out in the North-Western Poland which recognize the main social opportunities and barriers to the introduction of CCUS to the society.

At the national and regional level the social barriers of CCUS acceptance are ignorance, uncertainty and the lack of public debate about this technology. On the local scale social acceptance depends on the needs and fears of the local community. Some of those fears – distrust and perception of CO2 as a waste – could be recognized as the universal dilemmas connected with CCUS. Although, as knowledge about CCUS increases, a significant change in attitude can be observed, this change does not mean an acceptance of that technology. It is rather a shift toward more benign forms of resistance - from NIMBY to WIMBY. Then, the book presents actual mechanisms of social reaction to UGS and CCUS investment, which will be a valuable contribution to managing social change in the context of green transition.

The issue of social acceptance of CCUS should be of interest to decision-makers and practitioners who manage investment projects in the broadly understood green transformation on a daily basis, but also postgraduate students, researchers, academics and lecturers in political studies, sociology or economics, but also in engineering studies connected with energy transformation.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gaciarz, Barbara

Wojakowski, Dariusz

Langhelle, Oluf

Stopa, Mateusz

Nagy, Stanislaw

Sattich, Thomas Michael

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Energie
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Heimwerken
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Idea of the Book 1. What Do we Think About Social Acceptance of New Energy Technologies? 2. CCUS Considering Global Climate Policy and the European Green Deal 3. Energy-safety Policy and the Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region 4. Polish Public Discourse on CCUS: Analysis of the Official Documents and Media Discourse 5. West Pomeranian Province and Potential UGS Locations in North Poland 6. Uncertainty and Ignorance – the Regional Awareness of CCUS in Survey Research 7. Benefits, Risks and Protest – Local Knowledge and New Energy Technologies 8. Communication and Change – Analysis of the CCUS Promotion Meetings Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Dariusz Wojakowski is a sociologist, professor in the Department of Society and Technology Studies, Vice-Dean for Cooperation and Students at the Faculty of Humanities of the AGH University of Kraków. As of 2019, he is the Secretary of the Commission on Threats to Civilization at the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interests include regional and borderland studies, sociology of local communities, social acceptance of energy transition and qualitative methodology. Recent publications are devoted to: borderland community resilience; territorial branding; borderland representations and social acceptance of CCS. These publications have appeared in, among others: ‘International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control’; ’Borderland. Social Studies'; “Konteksty”; ‘Polish Sociological Review’; ’Sociologia. Slovak Sociological Review'; ‘Regional Science, Policy and Practice’.

Oluf Langhelle is Professor in political science at University of Stavanger, Department of Media and Social Sciences, Norway. He is currently Head of the Department. He took his Dr. Polit. degree at University of Oslo, Norway. His research has focused on the concept of sustainable development and follow-up, strategies for sustainable development, environmental politics and policy, including oil and gas policies in the Arctic, transitions towards low carbon societies, focusing on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), and the Doha Round Negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO). His current research interests focus on climate politics and policies, climate mitigation strategies, energy transitions, renewable energy, battery electric vehicles, and transition theory.

Mateusz Stopa, PHD, sociologist, during AGaStor Project worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Media and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Stavanger, Norway). He was responsible for qualitative research and analysis of secondary data (strategic documents, scientific and grey literature) and in-depth individual interviews with the representatives of regional institutions in the West Pomeranian Province. His research interests include: sustainable development, social perception of energy transition, societal basis of innovativeness. He explores these topics from local and regional perspective. Currently, he is a methodologist and project manager at SOLIDATA (research company, Poland).

Stanislaw Nagy is a professor at the Department of Gas Engineering, AGH University of Krakow, Poland. He is the Secretary of the Commission on Threats to Civilization at the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. in Gas Engineering. His research focuses on thermodynamics, reservoir, and gas engineering. It also deals with the energy transition process (in the context of reducing emissions through implementing CCS) and energy security. His interests also lie in engineering work related to low-temperature geothermal systems. He is the author and co-author of numerous monographs and articles.

Barbara Gaciarz is a Professor at the AGH University of Krakow and has a PhD in sociology and economics. She held the position of the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities in the years 2015-2024. She was Head of the Department of Sociology of the Economy and Social Communication of WH AGH for several years. For many years she was associated with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Science (IFIS PAN) in Warsaw. She specializes in economic sociology and the sociology of institutions. Her studies focus on institutionalization processes, local government functioning and the policy regarding the support for people with disabilities. She is the author and co-author of many books and articles, including “Local Government and Development. Institutions – Citizens – Empowerment”, “Institutionalization of Territorial Self-government. Actors and Effects”.

Thomas Sattich is Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Social Science, University of Stavanger, Norway. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and Economics. The focus of his research is on the geopolitics of the energy transition, including the international implication of renewable energy and energy transmission grids, industrial policy, and energy security. Sustainability education is another subject covered by his work, for example through the development of Geovania, a simulation that allows students to explore the geopolitics of the energy transition.