Community acceptance and social impacts of carbon capture, utilization and storage projects: a systematic meta-narrative literature review. [Dataset]

Abstract

This manuscript presents a systematic meta-narrative review of peer-reviewed publications considering community acceptance and social impacts of site-specific Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) projects to inform the design and implementation of CCUS projects who seek to engage with communities during this process, as well as similar climate mitigation and adaptation initiatives. A meta-narrative approach to systematic review was utilized to understand literature from a range of site specific CCUS studies. 53 peer-reviewed papers were assessed reporting empirical evidence from studies on community impacts and social acceptance of CCUS projects published between 2009 and 2021. A systematic meta-narrative review of peer-reviewed publications considering community acceptance and social impacts of CCUS projects was conducted. A meta-narrative systematic review focuses on sense-making of the research literature rather than providing a catalogue of findings. It is particularly useful for examining diverse strands of research methods and conceptualisations in order to "expose the tensions, map the diversity and communicate the complexity" in the field (p.427). To help guide the analysis, meta-narrative reviews use the six guiding principles of pragmatism, pluralism, historicity, contestation, reflexivity, and peer review. Please see the S1 File for how these principles were operationalised. 53 peer-reviewed papers were assessed (see S4 File for details) reporting empirical evidence from studies on community impacts and social acceptance of CCUS-projects published between 2009 and 2021. No discernible trends were observed in the publication rates by year (see Fig 2). This may be due to several papers referring to more than one site, and some sites being more researched than others. Fig 3 shows the 53 reviewed papers and their associated CCUS study site(s) locations together with the number of papers relating to each individual CCUS site by country. This demonstrates the predominance of the study of Euro-American culturally situated communities. This review could not locate any studies of communities in emerging economies such as nations in China, Africa, India or the Middle East adherent to this review’s inclusion criteria.

Citation

NIELSEN, J.A.E., STAVRIANAKIS, K. and MORRISON, Z. 2022. Community acceptance and social impacts of carbon capture, utilization and storage projects: a systematic meta-narrative literature review. [Dataset]. Plos one [online], 17(8), article e0272409. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272409#sec027

• Acceptance Date: Jul 19, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Aug 2, 2022
• Publication Date: Aug 31, 2022
• Deposit Date: Aug 12, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 12, 2022
• Publisher: Public Library of Science
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272409
• Keywords: Carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS); Local communities; Systematic review
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1734931
• Related Public URLs: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1724981
• Type of Data: DOCX files, TIF file and accompanying text file.
• Collection Date: Jul 27, 2021