Oluf Langhelle – författare

The book describes the results of AGaStor Project social research carried out in the North-Western Poland which recognize the main social opportunities and barriers to the introduction of CCUS to the society.

At the national and regional level the social barriers of CCUS acceptance are ignorance, uncertainty and the lack of public debate about this technology. On the local scale social acceptance depends on the needs and fears of the local community. Some of those fears – distrust and perception of CO2 as a waste – could be recognized as the universal dilemmas connected with CCUS. Although, as knowledge about CCUS increases, a significant change in attitude can be observed, this change does not mean an acceptance of that technology. It is rather a shift toward more benign forms of resistance - from NIMBY to WIMBY. Then, the book presents actual mechanisms of social reaction to UGS and CCUS investment, which will be a valuable contribution to managing social change in the context of green transition.

The issue of social acceptance of CCUS should be of interest to decision-makers and practitioners who manage investment projects in the broadly understood green transformation on a daily basis, but also postgraduate students, researchers, academics and lecturers in political studies, sociology or economics, but also in engineering studies connected with energy transformation.

The book describes the results of AGaStor Project social research carried out in the North-Western Poland which recognize the main social opportunities and barriers to the introduction of CCUS to the society.

At the national and regional level the social barriers of CCUS acceptance are ignorance, uncertainty and the lack of public debate about this technology. On the local scale social acceptance depends on the needs and fears of the local community. Some of those fears – distrust and perception of CO2 as a waste – could be recognized as the universal dilemmas connected with CCUS. Although, as knowledge about CCUS increases, a significant change in attitude can be observed, this change does not mean an acceptance of that technology. It is rather a shift toward more benign forms of resistance - from NIMBY to WIMBY. Then, the book presents actual mechanisms of social reaction to UGS and CCUS investment, which will be a valuable contribution to managing social change in the context of green transition.

The issue of social acceptance of CCUS should be of interest to decision-makers and practitioners who manage investment projects in the broadly understood green transformation on a daily basis, but also postgraduate students, researchers, academics and lecturers in political studies, sociology or economics, but also in engineering studies connected with energy transformation.

In spite of many years of negotiation on trade liberalization, progress seems to have stalled. This book explores why resistance to further market liberalization seems so strong, given that the benefits are seen to outweigh the costs.

This volume argues that in order to understand the slow progress of World Trade Organization negotiations, we need to take into consideration the ‘intermestic’ character of trade politics, that is, the way in which international and domestic aspects of politics and policies have been woven together and become inextricably related to each other. This is a general trend in our globalizing world, and one that is most pronounced in the case of trade politics and policy.

International Trade Negotiations and Domestic Politics therefore presents an in-depth analysis of institutions, ideas, interests and actors in the interplay between international trade negotiations and national negotiating positions. At the international level the authors focus on the multilateral negotiations within the World Trade Organization, together with the plurilateral and bilateral negotiations on free trade agreements. At the regional and domestic level they analyze the trade politics and policies of two established powers, the European Union and the USA; two rising powers, China and India; and a small industrialized country with an open economy, Norway.

In spite of many years of negotiation on trade liberalization, progress seems to have stalled. This book explores why resistance to further market liberalization seems so strong, given that the benefits are seen to outweigh the costs.

This volume argues that in order to understand the slow progress of World Trade Organization negotiations, we need to take into consideration the ‘intermestic’ character of trade politics, that is, the way in which international and domestic aspects of politics and policies have been woven together and become inextricably related to each other. This is a general trend in our globalizing world, and one that is most pronounced in the case of trade politics and policy.

International Trade Negotiations and Domestic Politics therefore presents an in-depth analysis of institutions, ideas, interests and actors in the interplay between international trade negotiations and national negotiating positions. At the international level the authors focus on the multilateral negotiations within the World Trade Organization, together with the plurilateral and bilateral negotiations on free trade agreements. At the regional and domestic level they analyze the trade politics and policies of two established powers, the European Union and the USA; two rising powers, China and India; and a small industrialized country with an open economy, Norway.