Framing Shale Gas for Policy-Making in Poland

Lis, Aleksandra; Stankiewicz, Piotr

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2016.1143355

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“…The extent to which these geometrics are locally contingent and associated with specific resource ontologies becomes evident when extraction technologies are transferred from established industries to distant resource basins. What has supposedly ‘worked’ in one place does not necessarily count as a self-evident solution in another context, as recent struggles with moving fracking to Europe make acutely clear (Lis and Stankiewicz, 2016; Vesalon and Creţan, 2015; Williams et al, 2017). As a result, technology transfer may both augment existing scientific disputes and render any disagreements subject to public scrutiny.…”

Section: Geo-social Controversies: the Shifting Knowledge Politiementioning

confidence: 99%

Resource-making controversies: Knowledge, anticipatory politics and economization of unconventional fossil fuels

Kama

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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Advancing relational accounts of ‘resource-making’ processes by deploying insights from science and technology studies, this article outlines crucial new lines of inquiry for geographical research on unconventional fossil fuels. The exploitation of various carbon-rich substitutes for hydrocarbons has rapidly expanded over the last two decades, to become a highly contentious issue which augments scientific dissensus and generates new collective engagements with the subsurface. The article invites geographers to examine the epistemically and politically transformative potential of such resource-making controversies in terms of reconfiguring: the production of geoscientific knowledge, anticipation of post-conventional energy systems, and temporal strategies of (de)economizing extractive futures.

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Section: Geo-social Controversies: the Shifting Knowledge Politiementioning

confidence: 99%

Resource-making controversies: Knowledge, anticipatory politics and economization of unconventional fossil fuels

Kama

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Similar patterns of collaboration between local inhabitants, environmental activists and NGOs from Poland and abroad occurred in campaigns against shale gas exploration, leading e.g. to blocking a site operated by Chevron (Lis and Stankiewicz 2017). Bringing together legal expertise, readiness to mobilize locally and nationally, and grassroots support proved very effective in stopping governmental plans for expanding lignite surface mining in several localities, leading a governmental representative to conclude that no new strip mines can be built in the face of such organized opposition.…”

Section: Nuclear Energy Again: Regaining Grassroots Outreachmentioning

confidence: 87%

Between domestic politics and ecological crises: (De)legitimization of Polish environmentalism

Szulecka

Szulecki

2019

Environmental Politics

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While political environmentalism played an important role in social mobilization against communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe before 1989, throughout the 1990s and early 2000s conservationism appeared to be in decline across the region, and external pressure from European institutions and Western donors influenced environmental policy. What explains the effectiveness of protest since the environmental movement emerged in the 1980s? We trace the emergence and evolution of Polish political environmentalism, looking at three levels of the environmental movement's legitimacy: the level of practices, societal support, and discourse. Each phase identified between 1980s and 2017 saw shifts on different levels of legitimacy, and each ended with a spectacular environmental protest or a decision, bearing implications for the following phase. Since 2010, we see a deep polarization of Polish politics, limiting the effectiveness of environmental protest despite the movement's regained triple legitimacy in large parts of the society.

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“…Most understanding is limited to findings from the US, with some attention to the UK, and less to Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, and sparse studies in other western nations (e.g. Poland, France (Gunzburger et al 2017, Stankiewicz 2017, Lis andStasik 2017)).…”

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Variation in beliefs about ‘fracking’ between the UK and US

Evensen

Stedman

O’Hara

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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In decision-making on the politically-contentious issue of unconventional gas development, the UK Government and European Commission are attempting to learn from the US experience. Although economic, environmental, and health impacts and regulatory contexts have been compared cross-nationally, public perceptions and their antecedents have not. We conducted similar online panel surveys of national samples of UK and US residents simultaneously in September 2014 to compare public perceptions and beliefs affecting such perceptions. The US sample was more likely to associate positive impacts with development (i.e. production of clean energy, cheap energy, and advancing national energy security). The UK sample was more likely to associate negative impacts (i.e. water contamination, higher carbon emissions, and earthquakes). Multivariate analyses reveal divergence cross-nationally in the relationship between beliefs about impacts and support/ opposition-especially for beliefs about energy security. People who associated shale gas development with increased energy security in the UK were over three times more likely to support development than people in the US with this same belief. We conclude with implications for policy and communication, discussing communication approaches that could be successful cross-nationally and policy foci to which the UK might need to afford more attention in its continually evolving regulatory environment.

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Framing Shale Gas for Policy-Making in Poland

Cited by 49 publications

References 20 publications

Resource-making controversies: Knowledge, anticipatory politics and economization of unconventional fossil fuels

Resource-making controversies: Knowledge, anticipatory politics and economization of unconventional fossil fuels

Between domestic politics and ecological crises: (De)legitimization of Polish environmentalism

Variation in beliefs about ‘fracking’ between the UK and US

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