Understanding public support for carbon capture and storage policy: The roles of social capital, stakeholder perceptions, and perceived risk/benefit of technology
Abstract
As climate change mitigation technologies emerge, there is an increased need to understand public support for the technology and the policies that will shape or thwart its evolution. Of particular importance are the communities most directly impacted. The current study focuses on a random sample of 970 adults in eight counties within the oil and gas industry-reliant region of southeast Texas in order to explore support for carbon capture and storage (CCS), which is a climate change mitigation technology that has seen a great deal of investment in that area. Results of ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis and general linear modeling (GLM) suggest that policy support –individual support and perceived community support – is dependent on perceived risks and benefits of CCS, community-focused perceptions (including Bourdieu’s social capital), and perceptions about stakeholders (trustworthiness and expected role in CCS policy making). Here, one key takeaway is that social capital was both a predictor and moderator in community-level CCS support and helped explain the hidden effects of risk perception of CCS and CCS knowledge on community-level CCS support. Implications for public policy and stakeholder relations are discussed.
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- Univ. of Texas at Austin, TX (United States)
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- Univ. of Texas at Austin, TX (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE), Clean Coal and Carbon Management
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1804064
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- OSTI ID: 1601309
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- FE0029487
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Energy Policy
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 139; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 0301-4215
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- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; Carbon capture and storage; Energy policy support; Social capital; Environmental risk perception; Risk knowledge; Climate change mitigation technology
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Moon, Won-Ki, Kahlor, Lee Ann, and Olson, Hilary Clement. Understanding public support for carbon capture and storage policy: The roles of social capital, stakeholder perceptions, and perceived risk/benefit of technology. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111312.
Moon, Won-Ki, Kahlor, Lee Ann, & Olson, Hilary Clement. Understanding public support for carbon capture and storage policy: The roles of social capital, stakeholder perceptions, and perceived risk/benefit of technology. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111312
Moon, Won-Ki, Kahlor, Lee Ann, and Olson, Hilary Clement. Mon .
"Understanding public support for carbon capture and storage policy: The roles of social capital, stakeholder perceptions, and perceived risk/benefit of technology". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111312. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1804064.
@article{osti_1804064,
title = {Understanding public support for carbon capture and storage policy: The roles of social capital, stakeholder perceptions, and perceived risk/benefit of technology},
author = {Moon, Won-Ki and Kahlor, Lee Ann and Olson, Hilary Clement},
abstractNote = {As climate change mitigation technologies emerge, there is an increased need to understand public support for the technology and the policies that will shape or thwart its evolution. Of particular importance are the communities most directly impacted. The current study focuses on a random sample of 970 adults in eight counties within the oil and gas industry-reliant region of southeast Texas in order to explore support for carbon capture and storage (CCS), which is a climate change mitigation technology that has seen a great deal of investment in that area. Results of ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis and general linear modeling (GLM) suggest that policy support –individual support and perceived community support – is dependent on perceived risks and benefits of CCS, community-focused perceptions (including Bourdieu’s social capital), and perceptions about stakeholders (trustworthiness and expected role in CCS policy making). Here, one key takeaway is that social capital was both a predictor and moderator in community-level CCS support and helped explain the hidden effects of risk perception of CCS and CCS knowledge on community-level CCS support. Implications for public policy and stakeholder relations are discussed.},
doi = {10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111312},
journal = {Energy Policy},
number = 10,
volume = 139,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Mon Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
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