Contested climate policies and the four Ds of public participation: From normative standards to what people want

Perlaviciute, Goda

doi:10.1002/wcc.749

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“…Outcome biases are difficult to overcome, but one avenue potentially worth exploring is to crowd-source ideal consultation processes using similar methods to those used for public consultations on active travel implementation itself. Communicating that the consultation process was agreed prior to any decisions on infrastructure may help (Perlaviciute, 2022).…”

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Active travel infrastructure design and implementation: Insights from behavioral science

Timmons,

Andersson,

McGowan

et al. 2024

WIREs Climate Change

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Replacing car travel with walking and cycling is at the core of the shift to healthier and more sustainable societies. Implementing dedicated infrastructure is a common measure to achieve this aim. But policymakers in multiple countries regularly contend with two obstacles: designing infrastructure that people will make use of and securing public support for implementation. We review and synthesize relevant research from behavioral science that sheds light on how to overcome these two obstacles. Given available literature, we focus on cycling infrastructure. We find that research on moderators of the success of active travel initiatives points to the importance of proximity, connectivity, and safety perceptions, particularly among women, older adults and children. We review empirical findings on which design elements make infrastructure both safe to use and perceived as safe. With respect to public support, we summarize common concerns and review research from behavioral economics and psychology that may help to counter misperceptions of the effects of active travel infrastructure. We also draw on evidence regarding support for climate policy and opinion formation more generally. The paper offers an evidence‐based guide for policymakers to design and implement active travel infrastructure, seen through the lens of behavioral science. It also highlights fruitful avenues for future research.This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Behavior Change and Responses The Carbon Economy and Climate Mitigation > Policies, Instruments, Lifestyles, Behavior Policy and Governance > Governing Climate Change in Communities, Cities, and Regions

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Section: Perceptions Of Fairnessmentioning

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Active travel infrastructure design and implementation: Insights from behavioral science

Timmons,

Andersson,

McGowan

et al. 2024

WIREs Climate Change

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“…However, unlocking this potential remains far from straightforward: informative campaigns remain overall inadequate [16] and citizen engagement cannot always be guaranteed [17]. To encourage and support end-users in reducing their energy use, personalised information must be provided, ideally on the appliance level, so that occupants understand the important areas of consumption within their households and increase their energy literacy [18].…”

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Equipment- and Time-Constrained Data Acquisition Protocol for Non-Intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring

Koasidis,

Marinakis,

Doukas

et al. 2023

Energies

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Energy behaviours will play a key role in decarbonising the building sector but require the provision of tailored insights to assist occupants to reduce their energy use. Energy disaggregation has been proposed to provide such information on the appliance level without needing a smart meter plugged in to each load. However, the use of public datasets with pre-collected data employed for energy disaggregation is associated with limitations regarding its compatibility with random households, while gathering data on the ground still requires extensive, and hitherto under-deployed, equipment and time commitments. Going beyond these two approaches, here, we propose a novel data acquisition protocol based on multiplexing appliances’ signals to create an artificial database for energy disaggregation implementations tailored to each household and dedicated to performing under conditions of time and equipment constraints, requiring that only one smart meter be used and for less than a day. In a case study of a Greek household, we train and compare four common algorithms based on the data gathered through this protocol and perform two tests: an out-of-sample test in the artificially multiplexed signal, and an external test to predict the household’s appliances’ operation based on the time series of a real total consumption signal. We find accurate monitoring of the operation and the power consumption level of high-power appliances, while in low-power appliances the operation is still found to be followed accurately but is also associated with some incorrect triggers. These insights attest to the efficacy of the protocol and its ability to produce meaningful tips for changing energy behaviours even under constraints, while in said conditions, we also find that long short-term memory neural networks consistently outperform all other algorithms, with decision trees closely following.

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“…Experts and policymakers tend to primarily focus on climate targets and technical feasibility, oftentimes overlooking the wider implications of energy systems for different values in society. One widely advocated strategy to better incorporate public values in energy policies and projects is by engaging the public in decision-making, known as public participation [5,6]. While people can engage with energy decision-making in various forms (e.g., bottom-up movements, consumer decisions [7]), here we focus particularly on invited public participation, namely processes organized by responsible parties (e.g., elected officials, government agencies, other public-or private-sector organisations) to deliberately engage the public in energy decision-making [8].…”

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Time to talk about values, time to say no: What drives public participation in decision-making on abstract versus concrete energy projects?

Perlaviciute,

Squintani

2023

PLOS Clim

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One way to develop more socially acceptable energy projects is by engaging people with different values (i.e., guiding principles in people’s lives) from early on in decision-making. However, people with different values may want to participate at different times of decision-making. When energy projects are still abstract (e.g., national renewable energy targets), people with strong biospheric values (i.e., caring about the environment) and altruistic values (i.e., caring about others) may want to participate. Whereas when projects become concrete (e.g., a local wind park), people with strong egoistic values (i.e., caring about personal resources) and hedonic values (i.e., caring about comfort and pleasure) may want to participate. In two field studies in the same region, we found that biospheric and altruistic values were indeed most strongly associated with people’s willingness to participate in abstract decision-making. At a local project level, the more people were against the project, the more they wanted to participate, irrespective of their values. We conclude that simply inviting people to participate in decision-making does not yet guarantee that different public values will be represented, and we draw recommendations for better incorporating values in energy decision-making.

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Contested climate policies and the four Ds of public participation: From normative standards to what people want

Cited by 13 publications

References 83 publications

Active travel infrastructure design and implementation: Insights from behavioral science

Active travel infrastructure design and implementation: Insights from behavioral science

Equipment- and Time-Constrained Data Acquisition Protocol for Non-Intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring

Time to talk about values, time to say no: What drives public participation in decision-making on abstract versus concrete energy projects?

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