Dear Ron, Thanks so much for your response. Actually I didn't know how active Japan is in the biochar space. I'll keep my eye on this.
And I agree it's an important research question to compare bio-based CDR, CDR, SRM, and mitigation, adaptation... In light of the crucial role CDR plays in the 2-degree / 1.5-degree scenario, we definitely have to to disentangle different CDR options in survey/interview/engagement studies. Best, Masa On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Ronal W. Larson <rongretlar...@comcast.net> wrote: > Professor Sugiyama, cc List > > 1. Thanks for the PNAS Decision Pathway URL you provided below. Extensive > use of the terms “deliberative” and “values”. They did look at several CDR > options - with the respondents favoring (as usual) afforestation. Two > tutorials used in the deliberative part of the process. > > The authors listed 5 steps in thinking through - using “PrOACT” (42): > understand the problem context, > clarify objectives, > define alternatives, > identify consequences, and > highlight key tradeoffs > > There are several other useful lists. I liked this paper. > > The Supplemental Information is only two figures, but get across the point > that incoming values (OT the technologies themselves) predict the polling > results. See > http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2016/01/02/1508896113.DCSupplemental/pnas.201508896SI.pdf > . > I have recently been reading George Layoff on values, frames, etc. - and > see the current US election throughout this PNAS values-oriented paper > > There is some hint at how the 800 respondents might have “voted” on biochar > - but, unfortunately, biochar was not one of the selected alternatives. > > > 2. In looking further at your Institute’s work I found this also by you > http://pari.u-tokyo.ac.jp/policy/WP16_23.pdf . This was also interesting, > though also limited to SRM, so I won’t go further with that. > > 3. Japan has had a world-leading role in biochar (the CDR option I am > interested in) development. I saw much of that Japanese leadership in 2011 > at a biochar conference in Kyoto. On the last day we visited one of several > dozen rice-hull carbonization facilities operated by Kansei Electric. It > could be interesting in a survey-theory sense to compare the CDR views of > Japanese farmers (who have been buying char from these facilities for years) > with other Japanese who might never heard the word “biochar” - all in a > climate-deliberative (not soil-deliberative) setting. > > 4. Another poll of interest to me would be for your group to compare all > the bio-oriented CDR options from a Japanese perspective: afforestation, > BECCS, biochar, biomass burial, etc. They are all quite different, but with > some obvious similarities. > > Again, thanks for adding more to this dialog. > > Ron > > > > > On Aug 13, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Masa Sugiyama <msugiy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Andrew, Ron, and all, > > I totally agree that we should look into the CDR/NET > part of the equation. And I also think things like deliberative polling > would be really needed. > We just think this is only a start. > > BTW, here's a study using the method called > a decision pathway survey. > http://m.pnas.org/content/113/3/560 > > Best, > Masa > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- Masahiro Sugiyama, Ph.D. The University of Tokyo, Policy Alternatives Research Institute Assistant Professor 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, JAPAN masah...@pari.u-tokyo.ac.jp masahiro_sugiy...@alum.mit.edu TEL +81-3-5841-0933 FAX +81-3-5841-0938 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
