Simon Shackley
Biographic Data
| ID | 366006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Shackley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Shackley |
| SIGNATURE | SHACKLEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0760-3504 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 230 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
How do people perceive carbon capture and storage for industrial processes? Examining factors underlying public opinion in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
Science-policy interplay on air pollution governance in China
Framing and bias in CO 2 capture and storage communication films: Reflections from a CO 2 capture and storage research group
There has been a growing trend towards incorporating short, educational films as part of research funding and project proposals. Researchers and developers in CO 2 capture and storage are using films to communicate outcomes, but such films can be influenced by experiences and values of the producers. We document the content and presentation of seven online CO 2 capture and storage films to determine how framing occurs and its influence on the ton…
Environmental Uncertainty
Environmental uncertainty (e.g., uncertainty in understanding, representing, and predicting environmental problems such as climate change, biodiversity, nutrient and water cycle changes, etc.) is endemic across many complex systems. While uncertainty is frequently regarded by scientists, policymakers, and stakeholders as a “problem,” it can also be a useful aide in leveraging resources and in shaping perceptions of appropriate policy responses. E…
Simulation Modelling as a Theory Building Tool: The Formation of Risk Perceptions
This paper presents a computer based simulation model which analyses the dynamics of public perceptions of risk using Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) ('mad cow disease') in the UK as a case study. The model is based upon a theoretically-derived understanding of the concept of perception of risk, and employs Cultural Theory and the archetypes it identifies as distinctive forms of social organization and cultural bias in the formation of per…
Different scenarios for achieving radical reduction in carbon emissions: A decomposition analysis
The dynamics of belief in climate change and its risks in business organisations
Uncertainty and the Tyndall decarbonisation scenarios
Trade-offs in assessing different energy futures: A regional multi-criteria assessment of the role of carbon dioxide capture and storage
Long-wave theories of technological change and the global environment
The Respectable Politics of Climate Change: The Epistemic Communities and NGOs
Climate change is unusual compared with most environmental issues in the extent to which it has become accepted among orthodox policy institutions and public- and private-sector organizations. The authors explore the conditions that have led to the establishment of an epistemic community that brings together a broad array of actors, including the various NGOs, and the operational dimensions that define the participation of NGOs within the communi…
Reconceiving Science and Policy: Academic, Fiducial and Bureaucratic Knowledge
Uncertainty, Complexity and Concepts of Good Science in Climate Change Modelling: Are GCMs the Best Tools?
Introduction to special section on the use of models in appraisal and policy-making
It is in situations of high inter-connectedness and complexity that computer models come into their own. The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of complex computer models in a range of disciplines and policy-relevant applications. This special section deals with the actual experiences of using models in assessing and making policy decisions, and reflects on the role of the social and policy context in influencing the evaluation, use an…
Anchoring Devices in Science for Policy: The Case of Consensus around Climate Sensitivity
This paper adds a new dimension to the role of scientific knowledge in policy by emphasizing the multivalent character of scientific consensus. We show how the maintained consensus about the quantitative estimate of a central scientific concept in the anthropogenic climate-change field - namely, climate sensitivity - operates as an `anchoring device' in `science for policy'. In international assessments of the climate issue, the consensus-estimat…
Trust in models? The mediating and transformative role of computer models in environmental discourse
The intergovernmental panal on climate change: Consensual knowledge and global politics
The politics of environmental discourse: Ecological modernization and the policy process
Imagine complexity
Representing Uncertainty in Global Climate Change Science and Policy: Boundary-Ordering Devices and Authority
This article argues that, in public and policy contexts, the ways in which many scientists talk about uncertainty in simulations of future climate change not only facilitates communications and cooperation between scientific and policy communities but also affects the perceived authority of science. Uncertainty tends to challenge the authority of chmate science, especially if it is used for policy making, but the relationship between authority an…
IPCC gazing and the interpretative social sciences
Integrating knowledges for climate change
Representing Uncertainty in Global Climate Change Science and Policy: Boundary-Ordering Devices and Authority
This article argues that, in public and policy contexts, the ways in which many scientists talk about uncertainty in simulations of future climate change not only facilitates communications and cooperation between scientific and policy communities but also affects the perceived authority of science. Uncertainty tends to challenge the authority of chmate science, especially if it is used for policy making, but the relationship between authority an…
Anchoring Devices in Science for Policy: The Case of Consensus around Climate Sensitivity
This paper adds a new dimension to the role of scientific knowledge in policy by emphasizing the multivalent character of scientific consensus. We show how the maintained consensus about the quantitative estimate of a central scientific concept in the anthropogenic climate-change field - namely, climate sensitivity - operates as an `anchoring device' in `science for policy'. In international assessments of the climate issue, the consensus-estimat…
The Respectable Politics of Climate Change: The Epistemic Communities and NGOs
Climate change is unusual compared with most environmental issues in the extent to which it has become accepted among orthodox policy institutions and public- and private-sector organizations. The authors explore the conditions that have led to the establishment of an epistemic community that brings together a broad array of actors, including the various NGOs, and the operational dimensions that define the participation of NGOs within the communi…
Integrating knowledges for climate change
Imagine complexity
Reconceiving Science and Policy: Academic, Fiducial and Bureaucratic Knowledge
The intergovernmental panal on climate change: Consensual knowledge and global politics
IPCC gazing and the interpretative social sciences
How do people perceive carbon capture and storage for industrial processes? Examining factors underlying public opinion in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
Science-policy interplay on air pollution governance in China
The politics of environmental discourse: Ecological modernization and the policy process
Uncertainty and the Tyndall decarbonisation scenarios
Trade-offs in assessing different energy futures: A regional multi-criteria assessment of the role of carbon dioxide capture and storage
IPCC gazing and the interpretative social sciences
Integrating knowledges for climate change
Imagine complexity
Representing Uncertainty in Global Climate Change Science and Policy: Boundary-Ordering Devices and Authority
This article argues that, in public and policy contexts, the ways in which many scientists talk about uncertainty in simulations of future climate change not only facilitates communications and cooperation between scientific and policy communities but also affects the perceived authority of science. Uncertainty tends to challenge the authority of chmate science, especially if it is used for policy making, but the relationship between authority an…
Trust in models? The mediating and transformative role of computer models in environmental discourse
The intergovernmental panal on climate change: Consensual knowledge and global politics
The politics of environmental discourse: Ecological modernization and the policy process
Uncertainty, Complexity and Concepts of Good Science in Climate Change Modelling: Are GCMs the Best Tools?
Introduction to special section on the use of models in appraisal and policy-making
It is in situations of high inter-connectedness and complexity that computer models come into their own. The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of complex computer models in a range of disciplines and policy-relevant applications. This special section deals with the actual experiences of using models in assessing and making policy decisions, and reflects on the role of the social and policy context in influencing the evaluation, use an…
Anchoring Devices in Science for Policy: The Case of Consensus around Climate Sensitivity
This paper adds a new dimension to the role of scientific knowledge in policy by emphasizing the multivalent character of scientific consensus. We show how the maintained consensus about the quantitative estimate of a central scientific concept in the anthropogenic climate-change field - namely, climate sensitivity - operates as an `anchoring device' in `science for policy'. In international assessments of the climate issue, the consensus-estimat…
Reconceiving Science and Policy: Academic, Fiducial and Bureaucratic Knowledge
The Respectable Politics of Climate Change: The Epistemic Communities and NGOs
Climate change is unusual compared with most environmental issues in the extent to which it has become accepted among orthodox policy institutions and public- and private-sector organizations. The authors explore the conditions that have led to the establishment of an epistemic community that brings together a broad array of actors, including the various NGOs, and the operational dimensions that define the participation of NGOs within the communi…
Long-wave theories of technological change and the global environment
Trade-offs in assessing different energy futures: A regional multi-criteria assessment of the role of carbon dioxide capture and storage
Uncertainty and the Tyndall decarbonisation scenarios
The dynamics of belief in climate change and its risks in business organisations
Different scenarios for achieving radical reduction in carbon emissions: A decomposition analysis
Simulation Modelling as a Theory Building Tool: The Formation of Risk Perceptions
This paper presents a computer based simulation model which analyses the dynamics of public perceptions of risk using Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) ('mad cow disease') in the UK as a case study. The model is based upon a theoretically-derived understanding of the concept of perception of risk, and employs Cultural Theory and the archetypes it identifies as distinctive forms of social organization and cultural bias in the formation of per…
Environmental Uncertainty
Environmental uncertainty (e.g., uncertainty in understanding, representing, and predicting environmental problems such as climate change, biodiversity, nutrient and water cycle changes, etc.) is endemic across many complex systems. While uncertainty is frequently regarded by scientists, policymakers, and stakeholders as a “problem,” it can also be a useful aide in leveraging resources and in shaping perceptions of appropriate policy responses. E…
Framing and bias in CO 2 capture and storage communication films: Reflections from a CO 2 capture and storage research group
There has been a growing trend towards incorporating short, educational films as part of research funding and project proposals. Researchers and developers in CO 2 capture and storage are using films to communicate outcomes, but such films can be influenced by experiences and values of the producers. We document the content and presentation of seven online CO 2 capture and storage films to determine how framing occurs and its influence on the ton…
Science-policy interplay on air pollution governance in China
How do people perceive carbon capture and storage for industrial processes? Examining factors underlying public opinion in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
Computer Science (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Climate change (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (6 works) · Politics (6 works)