Renewable energy and the public : from NIMBY to participation
Title:
Renewable energy and the public : from NIMBY to participation
Author:
Devine-Wright, Patrick.
ISBN:
9781849776707
9781136530265
Publication Information:
London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (369 pages)
Contents:
Introduction / Patrick Devine-Wright -- Section 1: Conceptual approaches -- 1. Symmetries, expectations, dynamics and contexts: a framework for understanding public engagement with renewable energy projects / G. Walker et al. -- 2. The principles, procedures, and pitfalls of public engagement in decision-making about renewable energy / C. Haggett -- 3. Beyond consensus? Agonism, republicanism and a low carbon future J. Barry and G. Ellis -- 4. Public roles and socio-technical configurations: diversity in renewable energy deployment in the UK and its implications G. Walker and N. Cass -- 5. From Backyards to Places: Public engagement and the emplacement of renewable energy technologies / Patrick Devine-Wright -- Section 2: Empirical studies of public engagement -- Part 1: Stakeholder and media representations of public engagement -- 6. Discourses on the implementation of wind power: Stakeholder views on public engagement / M. Wolsink -- 7. Governing the Reconfiguration of Energy in Greater London: Practical Public Engagement as 'Delivery' / M. Hodson and S. Marvin -- 8. Envisioning public engagement with renewable energy: an empirical analysis of images within the UK National Press 2006/7 / Hannah Devine-Wright -- 9. NIMBYism and community consultation in electricity transmission network planning / M. Cotton and Patrick Devine-Wright -- Part 2: Case studies of public beliefs and responses: Future energy scenarios -- 10. Turning the heat on: Public engagement in Australia's energy future / P. Ashworth, A. Littleboy, P. Graham & S. Niemeyer -- Solar energy and microgeneration -- 11. Shaping people's engagement with microgeneration technology: the case of solar photovoltaics in UK homes / D. Abi-Ghanem and C. Haggett -- 12. Siting Solar Power in Arizona: A Public Value Failure? / M. Pasqualetti and C. Schwartz -- 13. Socio-Environmental Research on Energy Sustainable Communities: Participation Experiences of Two Decades / P. Schweizer-Ries -- 14. Yes in my back yard: UK householders pioneering microgeneration heat / R. Roy and S. Caird -- Wind energy -- 15. Socio-environmental impacts of Brazil's first large-scale wind farm / R.L. Improta and J.Q. Pinheiro -- 16. Perceptions and Preferences Regarding Offshore Wind Power in the United States -- The Leading Edge of a New Energy Source for the Americas / J. Firestone -- Hydrogen energy -- 17. The limits of upstream engagement in an emergent technology: lay perceptions of hydrogen energy technologies / R. Flynn, P. Bellaby and M. Ricci -- 18. Public engagement with wind-hydrogen energy technology: a comparative study / F. Sherry-Brennan, P. Devine-Wright and H. Devine-Wright -- Marine energy -- 19. Symbolic interpretations of wave energy in the UK: surfers' perspectives / C. McLachlan -- Bioenergy -- 20. Heat and light: understanding bioenergy siting controversy / P. Upham -- Nuclear and low carbon energy -- 21. From the Material to the Imagined: Public Engagement with Low Carbon Technologies in a Nuclear Community / C. Butler, K. Parkhill and N. Pidgeon -- Conclusions P. Devine-Wright.
Abstract:
Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon electricity or heat. But this is frequently leading to controversy, as energy and planning policies are revised to support new energy sources or technologies (e.g. offshore wind, tidal, bioenergy or hydrogen energy) and communities face the prospect of unfamiliar, often large-scale energy technologies being sited near to their homes.
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