Print Email Facebook Twitter The acceptability of shale gas? Values in the design of technologies, institutions and stakeholder interactions Title The acceptability of shale gas? Values in the design of technologies, institutions and stakeholder interactions Author Correlje, A.F. Cuppen, E.H.W.J. Dignum, M. Pesch, U. Taebi, B. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Multi Actor Systems Date 2013-06-07 Abstract Shale gas is a relatively new technology that is embraced by some as the ‘game changer’ in energy land, and opposed by others because of its risks and other potentially negative impacts. Recent experiences in the US and Europe have shown that the technology witnesses divergent societal acceptance issues. The value-laden basis of such resistance is often ignored, whereas the method of ‘value sensitive design’ holds that the variety of values might be taken as a point of departure for the (re)design of a technological system so that divergent values among stakeholders are accommodated. In this paper, we will extent the scope of value sensitive design. Not only technologies may be subject of (re)design so to satisfy divergent values: as values are also embedded in the institutional context and in the processes of interaction between stakeholders, the prevention or resolution of controversy may be pursued by the redesign of the institutional context, and by taking the dynamics of stakeholder interaction explicitly into account. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c0a6d78f-df78-45f6-b9f8-3370bab19b9a Publisher ERSCP Source Proceedings of the 16th conference of the European roundtable on sustainable consumption and production (ERSCP) & 7th conference of the environmental management for sustainable universities (EMSU), 4–9 June 2013, Istanbul, Turkey Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2014 Correlje, A.F.Cuppen, E.H.W.J.Dignum, M.Pesch, U.Taebi, B. Files PDF 314513.pdf 610.34 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c0a6d78f-df78-45f6-b9f8-3370bab19b9a/datastream/OBJ/view