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Risks Governance of Innovative Power Generation Technologies in Saskatchewan: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future.

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正題名/作者:	Risks Governance of Innovative Power Generation Technologies in Saskatchewan: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future./
作者:	Osazuwa-Peters, Mac Osa.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
面頁冊數:	211 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-07, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-07B.
標題:	Innovations. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28859579
ISBN:	9798759927990

Risks Governance of Innovative Power Generation Technologies in Saskatchewan: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future.
Osazuwa-Peters, Mac Osa.

Risks Governance of Innovative Power Generation Technologies in Saskatchewan: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 211 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-07, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Regina (Canada), 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Literature on socio-technical transitions acknowledge that negative risk perception is important to socio-technical transitions. However, beyond acknowledging risk as a potentialbarrier to the deployment of innovative technologies, this study points out that the acceptanceor rejection of innovative technologies due to their associated risks can be a predictor of the socio-technical transition pathway that will be followed. This dissertation uses socio-technicaltransitions in the electric power generation sector of Saskatchewan as a case study. It finds that existing literature in the field of energy systems transitions fail to fully map the relationship between risk analysis and socio-technical transition pathways. This, the dissertation argues could be a function of the multidimensional and multidisciplinary nature of the concept of risk.This dissertation applies the risk governance framework to understand the multidimensional nature of risk and then map the findings on the multilevel perspective through which it showed how the outcome of citizen's risk analysis may result in several transition pathways.The analysis in this dissertation is based on data collected from six citizen's juries held in Saskatchewan in 2017. Through the discussions from these citizen's jury sessions, this study identified how citizens apply heuristic devices as they analyse their perceived risks in two baseload power generation sources, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and small modularnuclear reactors (SMRs).This dissertation finds that in Saskatchewan, familiarity, experiential knowledge of a technology based on a history of usage and consumption, rather than cost or technical risk, are the strongest factors influencing people's perception and attitude toward the risk in in novativetechnologies in the energy sector. These factors are most potent when CCS and SMRs are compared directly. But when compared as part of a portfolio of options including renewablere sources such as solar and wind, citizens seem to balance the risks they associate with SMRs with the gains from having renewable resources as part of the grid. Hence, there is a chance that Saskatchewan can advance its energy system transition through either a reproduction,substitution, or a transformation pathway.Clearly, this study not only maps the way risk analysis influence transition pathways, it also provides insight into the difference in the tools experts deploy in analysing risks compared to those that unspecialized citizens use. Through the use of expert witnesses in the citizen's jurysessions, this dissertation challenges the knowledge deficit model of citizen engagement as it revealed that citizens are more likely to develop confirmation biases when they are exposed to new information that deviates from their previous understanding of a phenomenon based on their lived experience, especially when they do not have full trust in the information sources.

ISBN: 9798759927990Subjects--Topical Terms:

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