A Three-Stage Psychosocial Engineering-Based Method to Support Controversy and Promote Mutual Understanding between Stakeholders: The Case of CO 2 Geological Storage

Kévin Nadarajah (), Laurent Brun, Stéphanie Bordel, Emeline Ah-Tchine, Anissa Dumesnil, Antoine Marques Mourato, Jacques Py, Laurent Jammes, Xavier Arnauld De Sartre and Alain Somat
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Kévin Nadarajah: Laboratoire de Psychologie: Cognition, Comportement, Communication (LP3C), Université de Rennes, F-35000 Rennes, France
Laurent Brun: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Didactique, Éducation et Formation (LIRDEF), University of Montpellier and Paul-Valéry Montpellier University, F-34092 Montpellier, France
Stéphanie Bordel: Équipe Recherche Psychologie Appliquée (PsyCAP), Centre d’Études et d’Expertise sur les Risques, l’Environnement, la Mobilité et l’Aménagement (Cerema), F-22000 Saint-Brieuc, France
Emeline Ah-Tchine: UR Formation et Apprentissages Professionnels (UR FoAP), Institut Agro Dijon, F-21000 Dijon, France
Anissa Dumesnil: Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Apprentissages en Contexte (LaRAC), Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38400 Grenoble, France
Antoine Marques Mourato: CLLE, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, F-31058 Toulouse, France
Jacques Py: CLLE, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, F-31058 Toulouse, France
Laurent Jammes: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS—Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers, F-75016 Paris, France
Xavier Arnauld De Sartre: Transitions Energétiques et Environnementales (TREE) Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR 6031), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, F-64000 Pau, France
Alain Somat: Laboratoire de Psychologie: Cognition, Comportement, Communication (LP3C), Université de Rennes, F-35000 Rennes, France

Energies, 2024, vol. 17, issue 5, 1-15

Abstract: Subsurface engineering projects with high socio-environmental impacts raise strong controversies among stakeholders, which often affects the projects’ implementation. These controversies originate from a loss of public confidence in the decision-making process, lack of information about new technologies, and the desire of some promoters to avoid conflict. The lack of methodologies to structure each stage of the debate can, in this context, lead to the crystallization of the stakeholders’ positions and to the failure of the project. To promote mutual understanding and constructive exchanges, this article presents a combination of methods based on psychosocial engineering principles to support debate and encourage stakeholders to participate with an openness posture. The method is based on a set of studies conducted as part of the “Social Governance for Subsurface Engineering” project and includes three stages: (1) develop stakeholders’ knowledge so that they are able to participate in the debate with an informed viewpoint; (2) commit stakeholders to participate in the debate by adopting a posture conducive to constructive exchanges; and (3) structure exchanges between stakeholders through the use of cooperative methods facilitating the adoption of an openness posture.

Keywords: stakeholders commitment; knowledge development; cooperative learning; mutual understanding; openness posture; energy transition; psychosocial engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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