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- Scaini, Anna, et al.
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Pathways from research to sustainable development: Insights from ten research projects in sustainability and resilience
- 2024
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Ingår i: AMBIO. - : SPRINGER. - 0044-7447 .- 1654-7209.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on collective experience from ten collaborative research projects focused on the Global South, we identify three major challenges that impede the translation of research on sustainability and resilience into better-informed choices by individuals and policy-makers that in turn can support transformation to a sustainable future. The three challenges comprise: (i) converting knowledge produced during research projects into successful knowledge application; (ii) scaling up knowledge in time when research projects are short-term and potential impacts are long-term; and (iii) scaling up knowledge across space, from local research sites to larger-scale or even global impact. Some potential pathways for funding agencies to overcome these challenges include providing targeted prolonged funding for dissemination and outreach, and facilitating collaboration and coordination across different sites, research teams, and partner organizations. By systematically documenting these challenges, we hope to pave the way for further innovations in the research cycle.
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- Rydén, Bo, 1957, et al.
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Fjärrvärmens Affärsmodeller: Slutrapport för Fjärrsynprojekt
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Fjärrvärmen är en integrerad del av det framtida hållbara energisystemet, med ambitionen att i än högre grad bidra till de samhälleliga målen om låga utsläpp från uppvärmning, minskad användning av primärenergi och synergier med andra sektorer, exempelvis energiåtervinning från avfall, industrier och avloppsrening. Som produkt och bransch har fjärrvärmen gjort en betydande resa sedan starten för mer än 50 år sedan och den har genomgått en omfattande utveckling, framför allt inom teknikområdet. Nya utmaningar och förändrade omvärldsförhållanden ställer dock nya och ökade krav på fjärrvärmeaffären och fjärrvärmeföretagens affärsmodeller. Fjärrvärmens Affärsmodeller är ett tvärvetenskapligt forskningsprojekt som genomförts inom ramen för forskningsprogrammet Fjärrsyn. Projektet har pågått under 2010-2013. Målsättningen har varit att generera ny kunskap och bättre verktyg för att konkurrenskraftiga affärsmodeller skall kunna utvecklas. Syftet är att stärka fjärrvärmen, att uppmuntra affärsutveckling och att skapa resurseffektiva lösningar för framtidens hållbara energisystem, till nytta för fjärrvärmebranschen, kunderna, miljön och samhället i stort. Inom ramen för olika delstudier har vi bland annat undersökt hur fjärrvärmeföretag skapar och levererar värde, möter sina kunder, använder sina nyckelresurser, hur intäkter uppstår och hur väl organisationen utnyttjas. Vi har även analyserat de utmaningar företagen står inför, fjärrvärmeaffärens möjligheter att tackla dagens komplexa problem, liksom dess förutsättningar för att utvecklas och generera långsiktigt uthålligt värde. Denna slutrapport redovisar projektets forskningsresultat och slutsatser, samt beskriver det breda tvärvetenskapliga arbetssättet och den aktiva och omfattande kommunikation som tillämpas mellan forskningsprojektet och dess intressenter. I tre lättlästa temaböcker har projektet också redovisat resultat och metoder om hur dagens prismodeller kan utvecklas, hur kunddialogen och kundens förtroende kan stärkas och hur fjärrvärmeaffären som helhet kan utvecklas.
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- Hansson, Anders, 1978-
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Colonising the future : the case of CCS
- 2012. - 1
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Ingår i: The social dynamics of carbon capture and storage. - London & New York, USA : Routledge. - 9781849713153 ; , s. 74-90
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has rapidly emerged as a crucial technological option for decarbonising electricity supply and hence mitigating climate change. This book sheds light on this potentially vital technology and its future
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- Hansson, Anders, 1978-, et al.
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Biochar as multi-purpose sustainable technology : experiences from projects in Tanzania
- 2021
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Ingår i: Environment, Development and Sustainability. - : Springer Nature. - 1387-585X .- 1573-2975. ; 23, s. 5182-5214
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Biochar was recently included as a promising negative emissions technology (NET) in theSpecial Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C published by the Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change. Unlike other NETs, it can potentially be used to mitigate global climatechange while adding to local resilience in countries highly exposed and sensitive toimpacts of climate change, such as least-developed countries (LDCs). The study is as anempirical contribution to the, as of yet, underdeveloped literature on deployment of negativeemissions technologies in LDCs in general and on biochar use in developing countriesand LDCs specifically. Nine historical and existing biochar projects in Tanzania aremapped in order to analyse problems, goals and common trade-offs associated with smalltomedium-scale biochar production in LDCs. The mapping is based on a literature anddocument study, interviews with project actors, and on-site visits to biochar projects during2019. The paper gives support to the observation made in the biochar literature thatwhile biochar has many potential socio-economic and environmental benefits, combiningthem in one single project is difficult. It is concluded that implementing biochar projects inTanzania will likely involve trade-offs between the development and subsistence strategiesand needs of local communities, the motivational forces of different project participants,and the uneven regulatory capacity of the state. We end by reflecting on the use of biocharprojects to offset carbon emissions made elsewhere.
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- Hansson, Anders, 1978-
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Making the 1.5°C Aspirational Climate Target Tangible with Carbon Dioxide Removal and Boundary Work
- 2024. - 1
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Ingår i: Climate, Science and Society. - New York : Routledge. - 9781783470594 - 9781032530161 ; , s. 268-275
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter, I will argue that scientific climate mitigation scenarios and pathways help create visions of the future, and that scenarios of a certain centrality or political and scientific le-gitimacy end up influencing the kinds of future developments deemed to be desirable or achiev-able. The argument will be supported by an overview of relevant research and is illustrated by an empirical study I conducted a couple of years ago with colleagues at Linköping University (Hansson et al., 2021). I will illustrate and discuss the construction of visions in the context of the IPCC reports. Engaging STS concepts, I reveal aspects of how relevant science is estab-lished. A point of departure, which I share with many STS scholars, is that scientific knowledge is negotiated and influenced by social processes and often co-constructed with politics (van Beek et al., 2022; Schenuit, 2023). I want to stress that such a point of departure does not mean that the ambition is to discredit the scientific validity of the IPCC. On the contrary, it is unavoid-able that science is situated in a cultural and political context. The boundaries between what is and is not considered scientific knowledge are blurry. It must be negotiated, especially when the scientific object is complex, in our case future development of the global climate in interaction with global society. Those interactions are inherently characterized by deep uncertainties and unpredictable social dynamics. Nevertheless, scientific communities have been tasked with the herculean mission to compile and analyze current understandings of climate change. Further-more, they are called upon to convey structured and transparent scenarios or pathways on how various futures may unfold. The main tools for that are integrated assessment models (IAMs) (IPCC, 2018). Therefore, my ambition is that STS-informed analyses can help society to open up and also improve scientific efforts to understand the future.
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- Hansson, Anders, 1978-, et al.
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The underworld of tomorrow? How subsurface carbon dioxide storage leaked out of the public debate
- 2022
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Ingår i: Energy Research & Social Science. - : Elsevier. - 2214-6296 .- 2214-6326. ; 90
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This perspective paper illustrates that the critical debate regarding geological storage of carbon dioxide has been discursively marginalised in recent years. However, two crucial factors make it reasonable to assume that significant storage-related uncertainties and challenges still exist.Firstly, experiences of geological storage are primarily related to enhanced oil recovery. Secondly, recent assessments indicate a doubling of the required quantity compared to what was envisioned back in 2005. Therefore, there seems to be a contradiction: as the visions of geological carbon dioxide storage have grown increasingly ambitious, the risks and challenges associated with storage have been marginalised.The paper suggests geological storage should become a topic of concern for critical social science and concludes with a reflection on five tentative explanations to the discursive marginalisation: 1) Increasing experience and knowledge have resulted in reduced risks; 2) The climate crisis and urgency have supported a broader acceptance of controversial mitigation options; 3) A shifting focus from fossil fuels with CCS to bioenergy with CCS has introduced new and salient problems that make storage-related challenges seem relatively less significant; 4) Coupling CCS to bioenergy has disarmed critics that primarily argue against prolongation of the fossil fuel era, and finally 5) Familiarisation and normalisation processes.
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- Anshelm, Jonas, 1960-, et al.
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Climate change and the convergence between ENGOs and buisness: on the loss of utopian energies
- 2011
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Ingår i: Environmental Values. - : White Horse Press. - 0963-2719 .- 1752-7015. ; 20:1, s. 75-94
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The conflicts permeating the environmental debate since the 1960s have mainly involved two actors: multinational companies and international environmental organizations (ENGOs). Today, there are signs that the antagonism is ending with regards to co-operation and strategy. We argue that this convergence is no longer limited to specific joint projects, but is also prevalent at the idea and policy levels. Both actors have begun describing problems in similar terms, articulating the same goals and recommending the same solutions. Such convergence offers advantages in efforts to counteract climate change but also some problems: declining citizen trust in ENGOs, risk of intellectually impoverished environmental and energy debates, and loss of alternate visions and values.
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- Bellamy, R., et al.
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Incentivising bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) responsibly : Comparing stakeholder policy preferences in the United Kingdom and Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Environmental Science and Policy. - : Elsevier Ltd. - 1462-9011 .- 1873-6416. ; 116, s. 47-55
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) plays a central role in scenario pathways that limit global warming in line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. Yet deliberate policy efforts to incentivise BECCS—whether through amending existing climate policies or introducing entirely new ones—remain rare. In this paper, we contend that BECCS must be incentivised responsibly, through policy-making processes which account for diverse and geographically varying societal values and interests. More specifically, we make the case for responsible incentivisation by undertaking a comparative analysis of stakeholder attitudes to four idealised policy scenarios for BECCS, including representatives of government, business, nongovernmental and academic communities, in the UK and Sweden. The scenarios were: business as usual; international policy reform; national BECCS policy; and national policy for negative emissions technologies. Based on our findings, we recommend that policymakers 1) recognise the need to develop new incentives and make enabling reforms to existing policy instruments; 2) consider the risk of mitigation deterrence in their real world (and not abstracted) contexts; 3) employ multi-instrument approaches to incentivisation that do not overly rely on carbon pricing or 4) force a choice between technology specific or technology neutral policies; and 5) attend to the diversity of stakeholder and wider public perspectives that will ultimately determine the success—or failure—of their policy designs.
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- Buhr, Katarina, 1980-, et al.
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Capturing the Stories of Corporations : A comparison of media debates on carbon capture and storage in Norway and Sweden
- 2011
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Ingår i: Global Environmental Change. - : Elsevier. - 0959-3780 .- 1872-9495. ; 21:2, s. 336-345
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The development and deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) are sensitive to public debates that socially frame the technology. This study examines the evolving CCS debates, focusing on the media's framing of firms. Corporations are central CCS actors, and we analyze them in light of the nation-state, which has been emphasized in previous research as the primary context of CCS politics. Empirically, we compare framings of Statoil and Vattenfall in the Norwegian and Swedish media, drawing on a qualitative dataset of news media articles published between 2005 and 2009. We conclude that firms make regular media statements either to foster legitimacy or to respond to criticism of CCS. We also conclude that framing is not necessarily linked to technological success or failure and that interpretations of the technology have different forms depending on whether the related activity occurs in domestic or foreign markets. Finally, we explain the media framings based on the domestic energy situation and politics.
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