| STUDYID | STOREDB:STUDY1234 |
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| CREATEDON | 2025-11-28 09:25:08 |
| MODIFIEDON | 2025-11-28 09:25:08 |
| UPLOADER | Nadja Zeleznik |
| DOI | DOI:10.20348/STOREDB/1234 |
| STUDY NAME | ||
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| Stakeholder demands for participatory technology assessment of energy sources for the green transition: Recommendations to improve the ECOSENS methodology | ||
| STUDY STATUS | ||
| Published: Open access to everyone | ||
| DATA SHARING POLICY | ||
| CC-Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives | ||
| STUDY TYPE | ||
| 01-09-00 - Perceptions, expectations and behaviours study | ||
| PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR | ||
| Claire Mays | ||
| BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE AVAILABLE | ||
| No | ||
| ECOLOGICAL DATA | ||
| No | ||
| STUDY DESCRIPTION | ||
| ECOSENS WP2 Assessment of the sustainability of the whole cycle of nuclear power constructed a life cycle assessment (LCA) tool to characterize and compare the sustainability of energy production sources in the context of the green transition [CONa,b,c,d]. A specific goal was to create a participative approach, one that could potentially be used by a broader-than-usual set of actors to systematically assess sustainability performance across the life cycle of energy technologies: old and new, fossil, renewable, and nuclear. The present deliverable contextualizes this effort in the history of technology assessment, showing that the ECOSENS implementation replayed classical tensions, but also that there is little precedent and there are no templates for participatory LCA. In this, ECOSENS WP2 provided innovative work.
This deliverable presents the extensive feedback and recommendations for participatory sustainability assessment drawn from three live or webinar stakeholder events/consultations: 1) elements of method [MAYa]; 2) desired scope and content [ZEL]; and – after a trial assessment – 3) detailed critique of approach, indicators, implementation and interpretation (presented for the first time in this report). Addressing broad-scale notions of societal decision making for sustainability, most recommendations remain aspirational, not directly applicable at the level of an LCA inventory/indicator approach, and/or requiring significant data, human and time resources. Nonetheless numerous actionable items are recorded, seeking more holistic, systemic (scenario-based) and integrative assessment, with clarified indicators measuring not only emissions but impacts and contributions to desired goals, for use by well-characterized and diverse stakeholder populations, and to result in transparent reporting. A set of lessons learned and further operational steps for improving the methodology are provided by the work package leader in Annex 5. | ||
| DATASET NAME | ||
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| Stakeholder demands for participatory technology assessment of energy sources for the green transition Recommendations to improve the ECOSENS methodology | ||
| DOI | DOI:10.20348/STOREDB/1234/1354 | |
| DELIVERABLE | ||
| ECOSENS D2.5 | ||
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