Geothermal Energy and Society

Adele Manzella is a Senior Scientist and a geophysicist at the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IGG). Her main research activity has been geothermal exploration, primarily through geophysical (electromagnetic) methods and data integration. She has been working on geothermal data organization, information portals, and geothermal data statistics.  National and international research project coordination and strategic research and innovation planning in the field of geothermal energy have been her main activities for two decades. Adele coordinated three national projects and has been a partner and work package or task leader in ten European projects, mostly dedicated to geothermal assessment and research and innovation strategy. She is a member of the Board of Directors and Secretary of the International Geothermal Association; co-Chair of the European Energy Research Alliance Joint Program Geothermal (EERA-JP Geothermal), recognized by the European Set Plan. She has served as co-Chair of the European Technology and Innovation Platform on Deep Geothermal (ETIP DG), recognized by the European Set Plan, and is currently the coordinator of its Working Group on Market Uptake. She was President of the Italian Geothermal Association (UGI) from 2018 to 2021. She has been active in the communication and promotion of geothermal technologies for many years through reports, press releases, and interviews at both national and international levels. Her current activities include research on the sustainability of geothermal technologies, including environmental and social aspects. 

Agnes Allansdottir is a social psychologist who specializes in international comparative social research on the ever-changing relationship and the ongoing dialogues between societies and scientific and technological developments. She has been highly engaged with social scientific research on science, society and technological developments for years, mostly as a principal investigator on international and comparative empirical research projects. Her research interests include public views on developments in the life science, cultural understanding of nature and natural processes and issues about climate change and energy transitions. She has published widely on those issues, for example, in Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Energy Policy and Science and Public Policy. Further, she has repeatedly given advice, based on her research, to policymakers at national, European, and international levels. Agnes studied in her native Iceland, in Aix-en-Provence in France and at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK. She has lectured on the psychology of communication for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Communication Sciences; on science communication and societal dialogues for undergraduate post graduate degrees in both Life Sciences and Natural Science at the University of Siena, Italy and more recently she lectures on the relationship between science and society for doctoral students across the Doctoral Programmes of Universities in Tuscany, Siena, Pisa and Florence.

Anna Pellizzone is an RRI expert and a citizen and stakeholder engagement professional, experienced in designing and running participatory processes on research and innovation. She is currently a scientific advisor for the Giannino Bassetti Foundation (FGB) and the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Anna has ten years of experience in European and national projects (HEU REINFORCING, HEU CO-VALUE, H2020 MOSAIC, H2020 TRANSFORM, H2020 SMART-map, FP7 Geothermal ERA-NET, Progetto VIGOR, Progetto Atlante Geotermico del Mezzogiorno). She currently sits in the Advisory Board of the EU project SSH Centre and PUSH-IT and is part of the ETIP Geothermal Working Group on Social Scienc

General Introduction to Geothermal Energy.- Policy & Regulatory aspects of geothermal energy a European perspective.- A Global Perspective on Policies for Geothermal Development.- Geothermal energy and sustainability contribution to fighting climate change, CSR, new scenarios and maximization of social impacts.- Geothermal energy and citizens' participation.- Geothermal energy in Australia insights from the energy transition.- The social acceptability of geothermal energy in Quebec and Canada.- Geothermal energy in Chile social perception, narratives and up and down trajectory.