The Social Dynamics of Carbon Capture and Storage

Nils Markusson has 15 years experience in the area of innovation and technology studies. He currently works as a Research Associate at the Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage research centre on several projects on aspects of CCS innovation. Simon Shackley works on assessing options for removal and storage of CO2. This includes techno-economic, socio-political and policy evaluations and implications. He first became interested in CCS in 2000 having analysed the potential limitations of carbon mitigation from other leading options. Benjamin Evar is a PhD student at the Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage research centre at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the emerging governance of carbon capture and storage, and the role of science in policymaking.

1. Introduction. 2. An introduction to key developments and concepts in CCS: history, technology, economics and law. 3. Introduction to section on perceptions and representations. 4 public understanding of and engagement with CCS. 5. Colonising the future: the case of CCS. 6. Beyond ‘For or Against’: environmental NGO-evaluations of CCS as a climate change solution. 7. Introduction to section on governance. 8. The evolving international CCS community. 9. Up and down with CCS: the issue-attention cycle and the political dynamics of decarbonisation. 10. Technology management in the face of scientific uncertainty: a case-study of the CCS Test Centre, Mongstad. 11. Introduction to section on innovation. 12. CCS: a disruptive technology for innovation theory. 13. Learning in CCS demonstration projects: social and political dimensions. 14. Conclusions.