Outputs (50)

Framing risk and uncertainty in social science articles on climate change, 1995–2012 (2016)
Book Chapter
Shaw, C., Hellsten, I., & Nerlich, B. (2016). Framing risk and uncertainty in social science articles on climate change, 1995–2012. In J. Crichton, C. N. Candlin, & A. S. Firkins (Eds.), Communicating risk. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137478788_13

The issue of climate change is intimately linked to notions of risk and uncertainty, concepts that pose challenges to climate science, climate change communication, and science-society interactions. While a large majority of climate scientists are in... Read More about Framing risk and uncertainty in social science articles on climate change, 1995–2012.

Food versus fuel? Going beyond biofuels (2015)
Journal Article
Tomei, J., & Helliwell, R. (2016). Food versus fuel? Going beyond biofuels. Land Use Policy, 56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.11.015

In less than a decade, biofuels transitioned from being a socially and politically acceptable alternative to conventional transport fuels to a deeply contested solution. Claims of land grabs, forest loss and food riots emerged to undermine the sustai... Read More about Food versus fuel? Going beyond biofuels.

Integrating social and value dimensions into sustainability assessment of lignocellulosic biofuels (2015)
Journal Article
Raman, S., Mohr, A., Helliwell, R., Ribeiro, B., Shortall, O., Smith, R., & Millar, K. (2015). Integrating social and value dimensions into sustainability assessment of lignocellulosic biofuels. Biomass and Bioenergy, 82, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2015.04.022

The paper clarifies the social and value dimensions for integrated sustainability assessments of lignocellulosic biofuels. We develop a responsible innovation approach, looking at technology impacts and implementation challenges, assumptions and valu... Read More about Integrating social and value dimensions into sustainability assessment of lignocellulosic biofuels.

Communicating climate change: conduits, content, and consensus (2015)
Journal Article
Pearce, W., Brown, B., Nerlich, B., & Koteyko, N. (2015). Communicating climate change: conduits, content, and consensus. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 6(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.366

Climate change has been the subject of increasing efforts by scientists to understand its causes and implications; it has been of growing interest to policymakers, international bodies, and a variety of nongovernment organizations; and it has attract... Read More about Communicating climate change: conduits, content, and consensus.

How certain is ‘certain’?: exploring how the English-language media reported the use of calibrated language in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report (2015)
Journal Article
Collins, L. C., & Nerlich, B. (in press). How certain is ‘certain’?: exploring how the English-language media reported the use of calibrated language in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report. Public Understanding of Science, 25(6), https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662515579626

This article presents findings from an analysis of English-language media reports following the publication of the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report in September 2013. Focusing on the way they reported the Intergovernm... Read More about How certain is ‘certain’?: exploring how the English-language media reported the use of calibrated language in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report.

Report on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Workshop (2015)
Report
Hadley Kershaw, E., Hartley, S., & Pearce, W. (2015). Report on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Workshop

The potential for an ongoing interdisciplinary conversation about RRI at the University of Nottingham (UoN) was identified during a research project conducted in summer 2014 to investigate how RRI is being interpreted within UoN (Pearce et al., 2014)... Read More about Report on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Workshop.

Challenge clusters facing LCA in environmental decision-making—what we can learn from biofuels (2015)
Journal Article
McManus, M., Taylor, C., Mohr, A., Whittaker, C., Scown, C. D., Li Borrion, A., Glithero, N., & Yin, Y. (2015). Challenge clusters facing LCA in environmental decision-making—what we can learn from biofuels. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 20(10), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-015-0930-7

Purpose Bioenergy is increasingly used to help meet greenhouse gas (GHG) and renewable energy targets. However, bioenergy’s sustainability has been questioned, resulting in increasing use of life cycle assessment (LCA). Bioenergy systems are global a... Read More about Challenge clusters facing LCA in environmental decision-making—what we can learn from biofuels.

Constructing a social subject: autism and human sociality in the 1980s (2014)
Journal Article
Hollin, G. (2014). Constructing a social subject: autism and human sociality in the 1980s. History of the Human Sciences, 27(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695114528189

This article examines three key aetiological theories of autism (meta-representations, executive dysfunction and weak central coherence), which emerged within cognitive psychology in the latter half of the 1980s. Drawing upon Foucault’s notion of ‘fo... Read More about Constructing a social subject: autism and human sociality in the 1980s.

Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values (2014)
Journal Article
Jaspal, R., Turner, A., & Nerlich, B. (2014). Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values. Environmental Values, 23(5), https://doi.org/10.3197/096327114X13947900181473

Shale gas is a novel source of fossil fuel which is extracted by induced hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” This article examines the the socio-political dimension of fracking as manifested in the UK press at three key temporal points in the debate... Read More about Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values.

Responsible Research and Innovation: responding to the new research agenda (2014)
Report
Pearce, W., Hartley, S., & Taylor, A. (2014). Responsible Research and Innovation: responding to the new research agenda

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is concerned with the nature and trajectory of research and innovation: what it can do for society and who gets to decide. RRI has been embedded in key funding institutions such as EPSRC (Engineering and Phys... Read More about Responsible Research and Innovation: responding to the new research agenda.