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TY - JOUR
T1 - The pore space scramble
T2 - challenges and opportunities for subsurface governance
AU - Gormally, Alexandra Marie
AU - Markusson, Nils Olof
AU - Bentham, Michelle
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Geoforum. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Geoforum, 95, 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.07.006
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - There is a rich literature on environmental governance thatprovides critiques and conceptual tools on how various environmental'arenas' or overlapping global systems should be governed eg. climate,energy, oceans (Cherp et al., 2011, Berkes, 2006, Underdal, 2010). Inthis paper we argue that the geological subsurface should be consideredas a new arena for governance in its own right. The arguments for thisare presented by considering current and future challenges the subsurfacewill face as its utilisation evolves and intensifies, particularly in thecontext of both energy security and low carbon energy. Three mainchallenges are highlighted; ownership, access and long term stewardship.These challenges are presented using the illustrative context ofsubsurface pore space for the long term storage of CO2 from CarbonCapture (CCS). This is presented in the UK context but ultimately hasimplication for global subsurface governance going forward.
AB - There is a rich literature on environmental governance thatprovides critiques and conceptual tools on how various environmental'arenas' or overlapping global systems should be governed eg. climate,energy, oceans (Cherp et al., 2011, Berkes, 2006, Underdal, 2010). Inthis paper we argue that the geological subsurface should be consideredas a new arena for governance in its own right. The arguments for thisare presented by considering current and future challenges the subsurfacewill face as its utilisation evolves and intensifies, particularly in thecontext of both energy security and low carbon energy. Three mainchallenges are highlighted; ownership, access and long term stewardship.These challenges are presented using the illustrative context ofsubsurface pore space for the long term storage of CO2 from CarbonCapture (CCS). This is presented in the UK context but ultimately hasimplication for global subsurface governance going forward.
KW - Subsurface governance
KW - Pore space
KW - Energy
KW - Verticality
KW - Geosocial
U2 - 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.07.006
DO - 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.07.006
M3 - Journal article
VL - 95
SP - 70
EP - 77
JO - Geoforum
JF - Geoforum
SN - 0016-7185
ER -