Understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of public attitudes and community responses to shale gas: an integrated approach

了解公众态度和社区对页岩气反应的时空动态：综合方法

• 批准号: NE/R017727/1
• 负责人: Patrick Devine-Wright
• 金额: $ 65.33万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FR017727%2F1
• 关键词: Understanding; spatial; temporal; dynamics; public

This research project will analyse how public attitudes and community responses to shale gas unfold in space and time. Given that public protests about hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') have taken place in several countries including the UK, understanding public attitudes and community responses to shale gas development is a key social science research area, with relevance for UK policy and for developers' 'social license to operate'. To date, cross-sectional research on public attitudes to shale gas has predominated, with little detail on how attitudes might vary across geographical areas or evolve over time. Moreover, little in-depth research has charted the lived experience of UK communities in places of shale gas development or the operator engagement that has taken place there. To address these gaps, this project will implement a mixed-method approach combining spatial, qualitative and quantitative tools. We take a multi-scalar approach with a particular interest in the evolution of public attitudes at the societal level, and the relations between stakeholder and community engagement around particular shale gas development projects at the local level. Informed by frameworks derived from research on other controversial energy technologies, we aim to address the following questions:RQ1. How do public attitudes to shale gas evolve over space and time in response to unfolding events and changing discourse?RQ2. What is the lived experience of communities affected by shale gas site preparation, exploration and extraction? RQ3. What rationales and practices are employed by shale gas stakeholders, including operators, to engage with communities and how is this engagement perceived and responded to?The proposed research will develop new understandings of public attitudes and community responses to shale gas informed by theory from human geography and social psychology. Drawing on core concepts of geographical differentiation, spatial proximity and place attachment, we will develop and apply a novel methodological basis for analyzing socio-economic aspects of shale gas. The work programme is divided into four interdependent tasks. WP1 will construct a platform to integrate data at national and local scales, with environmental (both topographical and subsurface), political and socio-economic characteristics overlaid with data on the evolution of public attitudes (WP2) and lived experience and stakeholder engagement (WP3). A final work package will synthesise findings from across these strands (WP4).The project will have multiple impacts, including:Capacity building - fostering the development of less experienced investigators and post-doctoral researchers through the targeted co-management of research activities and co-production of written outputs;Public and stakeholder engagement - with national and local stakeholders in each case study area, from public, private and NGO sectors;Influence on policy and practice - working with the project's international Advisory Board to widely share findings expected to attract local, national and international interest;Wider academic impacts - through a series of high profile scientific publications, new datasets, conference and seminar presentations.

该研究项目将分析公众对页岩气的态度和社区反应如何在空间和时间上展开。鉴于公众对水力压裂（“压裂”）的抗议已经在包括英国在内的几个国家发生，了解公众对页岩气开发的态度和社区反应是一个关键的社会科学研究领域，与英国政策和开发商的“社会经营许可证”相关。到目前为止，关于公众对页岩气态度的横截面研究占主导地位，关于不同地理区域的态度如何变化或随着时间的推移如何演变的细节很少。此外，很少有深入的研究描绘了英国社区在页岩气开发或运营商参与的地方的生活经验。为了弥补这些差距，本项目将采用一种结合空间、定性和定量工具的混合方法。我们采取多标量方法，特别关注社会层面公众态度的演变，以及地方层面特定页岩气开发项目的利益相关者和社区参与之间的关系。通过对其他有争议的能源技术研究得出的框架，我们的目标是解决以下问题：RQ 1。公众对页岩气的态度如何随着时间和空间的变化而演变，以应对不断发展的事件和不断变化的话语？RQ 2.受页岩气场地准备、勘探和开采影响的社区的生活经历是什么？RQ 3.页岩气利益相关者（包括运营商）采用什么样的理论和实践与社区互动，以及如何看待和回应这种互动？拟议中的研究将通过人文地理学和社会心理学的理论，对公众对页岩气的态度和社区反应产生新的理解。借鉴地理差异，空间邻近和地方附件的核心概念，我们将开发和应用一种新的方法论基础，分析页岩气的社会经济方面。工作方案分为四项相互依存的任务。WP 1将建立一个平台，整合国家和地方规模的数据，其中包括环境（地形和地下）、政治和社会经济特征，以及公众态度演变（WP 2）和生活经验和利益攸关方参与（WP 3）的数据。该项目将产生多重影响，包括：能力建设-通过有针对性地共同管理研究活动和共同编写书面产出，促进经验不足的调查人员和博士后研究人员的发展;公众和利益攸关方的参与-与来自公共、私营和非政府组织部门的每个案例研究领域的国家和地方利益攸关方的参与;对政策和实践的影响-与项目的国际咨询委员会合作，广泛分享预期将吸引地方，国家和国际兴趣的研究结果;更广泛的学术影响-通过一系列高知名度的科学出版物，新的数据集，会议和研讨会演讲。

项目成果

Do the ends justify the means? Problematizing social acceptance and instrumentally-driven community engagement in proposed energy projects

达到目的就可以不择手段吗？

• DOI: 10.1007/s42532-023-00148-8
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Socio-Ecological Practice Research
• 作者: Ryder S

"Do you Know What's Underneath your Feet?": Underground Landscapes & Place-Based Risk Perceptions of Proposed Shale Gas Sites in Rural British Communities ?

“你知道你脚下是什么吗？”：地下景观

• DOI: 10.1111/ruso.12513
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Rural Sociology
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Ryder S

Growing importance of climate change beliefs for attitudes towards gas

气候变化信念对天然气态度的重要性日益增加

• DOI: 10.1038/s41558-023-01622-7
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Nature Climate Change
• 影响因子: 30.7
• 作者: Evensen D

Induced seismicity or political ploy?: Using a novel mix of methods to identify multiple publics and track responses over time to shale gas policy change

• DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102247
• 发表时间: 2021-08-21
• 期刊: ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Devine-Wright, P.;Ryder, S.;Bartie, P.
• 通讯作者: Bartie, P.

Effect of "finite pool of worry" and COVID-19 on UK climate change perceptions.

• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2018936118
• 发表时间: 2021-01-19
• 期刊: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
• 影响因子: 11.1
• 作者: Evensen D;Whitmarsh L;Bartie P;Devine-Wright P;Dickie J;Varley A;Ryder S;Mayer A
• 通讯作者: Mayer A