A Three-Stage Psychosocial Engineering-Based Method to Support Controversy and Promote Mutual Understanding between Stakeholders: The Case of CO2 Geological Storage

Kévin Nadarajah (1, 2, 3) , Laurent Brun (4) , Stéphanie Bordel (5) , Emeline Ah-Tchine (6) , Anissa Dumesnil (7) , Antoine Marques Mourato (8) , Jacques Py (9) , Laurent Jammes (10) , Xavier Arnauld de Sartre (11, 12) , Alain Somat (13)

1 UR2 UFRSH - Université de Rennes 2 - UFR Sciences humaines
2 LP3C - EA1285 - Laboratoire de Psychologie : Cognition, Comportement, Communication
3 Cerema Direction Ouest - Centre d'Etudes et d'Expertise sur les Risques, l'Environnement, la Mobilité et l'Aménagement - Direction Ouest
4 LaRAC - Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Apprentissages en Contexte
5 PsyCAP - PsyCAP : Equipe Recherche Psychologie appliquée
6 FoAP - Formation et apprentissages professionnels
7 LAPPS - Laboratoire Parisien de Psychologie Sociale
8 UT - Université de Toulouse
9 CLLE - Cognition, langues, langage, ergonomie
10 INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers
11 UPPA - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour
12 TREE - Transitions Energétiques et Environnementales
13 UR2 - Université de Rennes 2

Subsurface engineering projects with high socio-environmental impacts raise strong controversies among stakeholders, which often affects the projects’ implementation. These controversies originate from a loss of public confidence in the decision-making process, lack of information about new technologies, and the desire of some promoters to avoid conflict. The lack of methodologies to structure each stage of the debate can, in this context, lead to the crystallization of the stakeholders’ positions and to the failure of the project. To promote mutual understanding and constructive exchanges, this article presents a combination of methods based on psychosocial engineering principles to support debate and encourage stakeholders to participate with an openness posture. The method is based on a set of studies conducted as part of the “Social Governance for Subsurface Engineering” project and includes three stages: (1) develop stakeholders’ knowledge so that they are able to participate in the debate with an informed viewpoint; (2) commit stakeholders to participate in the debate by adopting a posture conducive to constructive exchanges; and (3) structure exchanges between stakeholders through the use of cooperative methods facilitating the adoption of an openness posture.

Domaines: Psychologie; Psychologie et comportements

Kévin Nadarajah, Laurent Brun, Stéphanie Bordel, Emeline Ah-Tchine, Anissa Dumesnil, et al.. A Three-Stage Psychosocial Engineering-Based Method to Support Controversy and Promote Mutual Understanding between Stakeholders: The Case of CO2 Geological Storage. Energies, 2024, 17 (5), pp.1014. ⟨10.3390/en17051014⟩. ⟨hal-04478193⟩