Consider Social Acceptability of Contentious Low-Carbon Energy Technologies

SSH CENTRE (Social Sciences and Humanities for Climate, Energy aNd Transport Research Excellence) is a Horizon Europe project, engaging directly with stakeholders across research, policy, and business (including citizens) to strengthen social innovation, SSH-STEM collaboration, transdisciplinary policy advice, inclusive engagement, and SSH communities across Europe, accelerating the EU’s transition to carbon neutrality. SSH CENTRE is based in a range of activities related to Open Science, inclusivity and diversity – especially with regards Southern and Eastern Europe and different career stages –  including: development of novel SSH-STEM collaborations to facilitate the delivery of the EU Green Deal; SSH knowledge brokerage to support regions in transition; and the effective design of strategies for citizen engagement in EU R&I activities. Outputs include action-led agendas and building stakeholder synergies through regular Policy Insight events.This is captured in a high-profile virtual SSH CENTRE generating and sharing best practice for SSH policy advice, overcoming fragmentation to accelerate the EU’s journey to a sustainable future.The documents uploaded here are part of WP2 whereby novel, interdisciplinary teams were provided funding to undertake activities to develop a policy recommendation related to EU Green Deal policy. Each of these policy recommendations, and the activities that inform them, will be written-up as a chapter in an edited book collection. Three books will make up this edited collection - one on climate, one on energy and one on mobility.

 The present project proposes to conduct a research on social acceptability of three controversial technologies in France: nuclear fusion, agrivoltaics and offshore wind turbines. We review the literature  and develop a framework for studying the dynamics of acceptability of these technologies over the entire 2013-2023 period. 

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Appendix 1 : This output uploaded is the literary corpus from the EUROPRESSE database used to carry out the sentimental analysis and the topics modelling

Appendix 2 : The scraping results of the corpus from the EUROPRESSE database

Appendix 3 : The topic modeling results of the corpus from the EUROPRESSE database

Appendix 4 : The sentimental analysis results of the corpus from the EUROPRESSE database

Appendix 5 : This file  provides a comprehensive analysis of the factors shaping the social acceptability of low-carbon energy technologies in France

Appendix 6 : This file sorted the 10 most positive and the 10 most negative articles associated with each low-carbon energy technology