Socially Responsible Research as a Critical Path to Foster Rational and Ethical Analyses in Biased Public Debates: The Example of a Renewable Energy

Sébastien Bayon; Jean-Claude André

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Socially Responsible Research as a Critical Path to Foster Rational and Ethical Analyses in Biased Public Debates: The Example of a Renewable Energy

Sébastien Bayon, Jean-Claude André

Published in Science Journal of Energy Engineering (Volume 5, Issue 6)

Received: 31 October 2016 Accepted: 30 December 2016 Published: 8 January 2018

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The development of new technologies crossed more and more by means of inquiries to the public. At the same time, the researchers should be more and more led to explore socially responsible research principles to take into account aspects like supplies, risks and social perception of the systems which they allow. A certain number of data was calculated from Life Cycles Analysis, allowing confrontations in relation to citizen opinions expressed in the case of the Aeolian energy system. The work linked with this paper agrees with some published results, but also highlights a trend of certain scientists coming from the “hard” sciences to assert opinions located outside the techno-economic reality. This result does not meet for the general population which agrees better to not know. This unforeseen situation asks then the important question of links to be developed between science, technology and society.

Published in	Science Journal of Energy Engineering (Volume 5, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.sjee.20170506.15
Page(s)	158-168
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Public Debate, Precautionary Principle, Uncertain Risks, Social Perception, Expertise

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Sébastien Bayon

Laboratoire Réactions et Génie des Procédés – Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS - Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique / Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques, Universite de Lorraine, Nancy, France
Jean-Claude André

Laboratoire Réactions et Génie des Procédés – Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS - Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique / Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques, Universite de Lorraine, Nancy, France

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