A socio-technical framework for assessing the viability of carbon capture and storage technology
By Nils Markusson, F. Kern, Jim Watson, Stathis G. Arapostathis, H. Chalmers, N. Ghaleigh, P. Heptonstall, P. Pearson, D. Rossati, Stewart Russell. 2012
110 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is seen as a key technology to tackle climate change. The principal idea of CCS is to remove carbon from the flue gases arising from burning fuels for electricity generation or industrial applications and to store the carbon in geological formations to prevent it from entering the atmosphere. Policy makers in several countries are supportive of the technology, but a number of uncertainties hamper its further development and deployment. The paper makes three related contributions to the literatures on socio-technical systems and technology assessment: 1) It systematically develops an interdisciplinary framework to assess the main uncertainties of CCS innovation. These include technical, economic, financial, political and societal issues. 2) It identifies important linkages between these uncertainties. 3) It develops qualitative and quantitative indicators for assessing these uncertainties. This framework aims to help decision making on CCS by private and public actors and is designed to be applicable to a wider range of low carbon technologies. The paper is based on a systematic review of the social science literature on CCS and on insights from innovation studies, as well as on interviews about assessment of new technologies with experts from a range of organisations and sectors.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/351b21db6d4128a4a279e2b73bdcc7f0ea07e7ec
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Economics and Econometrics
Citations in the corpus
- Positioning and revision of CCUS technology development in China (2016, background): “024 solation, but also attach importance to what organizational form his will take and to form a “tight coupling” integration of the hole CCUS system (Markusson and Kern, 2012).”
- Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: Bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges (2015, unknown): “Such insight can serve to critically modulate model parameters and ultimately how CCS fares in future scenarios, e.g. via an outline of key related uncertainties (Markusson et al., 2012).”