Controversies around energy landscapes in third modernity

Kropp, Cordula

doi:10.1080/01426397.2017.1287890

Cited by 19 publications

(10 citation statements)

References 25 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Another emerging critical line of research is on energy colonialism, as deemed by Batel and Devine-Wright [75], in its manifold manifestations -for some examples, see [75,76,77,78,79,80]. Finally, discussion on how RET are deployed in the relation between expert-political and lay systems and how democratic those relations are, has been mainly translated into questioning the main assumptions of the deliberative turn and its focus on consensus-making as the solution to promote RET, as well as, more generally into considering the role of power relations in energy transitions and associated issues [81,82,83]. Research in this area has highlighted how those 'consensuses' are actually still pervaded by power relations and how they also try to erase any conflict, when conflict has been deemed as crucial for healthy functioning democracies [59,62,84].…”

Section: A Deeper Look At the Three Waves Of Research On The Social Acceptance Of Retmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future

Batel¹

2020

Energy Research & Social Science

195

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

in 2007 [1] formalized what is still nowadays generally called the field of research on the social acceptance of renewable energy innovation or renewable energy technologies (RET). Twelve years later, we can say that this paper and associated proposal has been a landmark for research on this area, not only because it helped formalize it as a standalone field of research (see also [2,3]), but because it simultaneously provided a systematization of past research -the need to overcome the NIMBY (Not in my backyard) explanation for local opposition -and an orientation for future of research on the social acceptance of RET -to further examine instead the relation between opposition to RET and several socio-political, market and community factors. As such, it provided a turning point in this area of research from -as I will refer to it in this paper -the first to the second wave of research on the social acceptance or RET, or, as based on the proposal of Labussière and Nadaï [4], from normative to criticism approaches. In order to better understand this change, it is relevant to briefly go back to the 1980s and to research, within the risk perception tradition [5; see also 6], on people's responses to hazardous facilities, including several related to energy, such as nuclear power plants.As pointed out by Freudenburg and Pastor [5], much research up until that point would explain public opposition to hazardous facilities and technologies as NIMBY, a syndrome or phenomenon that summarized the idea that people were only opposing those facilities due to them being built in their backyard and thus based only on selfishness (not considering the greater good), ignorance (not being able to understand the need for the construction of such facilities) and irrationality (reacting emotionally) (for more detailed reviews on the origins of NIMBY, see

show abstract

Section: A Deeper Look At the Three Waves Of Research On The Social Acceptance Of Retmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future

Batel¹

2020

Energy Research & Social Science

195

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Thus, when subsurface data are mapped out across the United Kingdom it demonstrates the potential for enormous variation in interpretation of risk according to the spatial location of boreholes as well as the constellation of community and demographic combinations that may together shape risk perceptions, (e.g. Kropp, 2018). This distribution of perception of risk in conjunction with an assessment of subsurface uncertainty related to geoenergy projects has yet to explored in the United Kingdom, however recent studies into risk perception as a function of ecosystem services relating to renewable energy, (e.g.…”

Section: Communities and Science Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Suitability of Legacy Subsurface Data for Nascent Geoenergy Activities Onshore United Kingdom

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The decarbonization of energy systems to achieve net zero carbon emissions will likely see the rapid development of carbon capture and storage, energy storage in the subsurface and geothermal energy projects. Subsurface data, in particular seismic reflection surveys and borehole data are vital for geoscientists and engineers to carry out comprehensive assessments of both the opportunities and risks for these developments. Their cost of acquisition means that such legacy data are commonly the only mechanism for site selection so biased data distribution must be accommodated. Here, legacy subsurface data from United Kingdom onshore hydrocarbon and coal exploration in the United Kingdom are collated and reviewed for their suitability for geoenergy activities. We provide a description of the spatial coverage and a chronology of the acquisition of key seismic reflection and borehole data, as well as examine data resolution and limitations. We discuss the implications of spatial variability in subsurface datasets and the associated subsurface uncertainty as this is vitally important to understanding the suitability of data for decision making. We examine societal aspects of data uncertainty and discuss that when the same data are used to communicate subsurface uncertainty and risk, the source of the data should also be considered, especially where data are not easily publicly accessible. Understanding the provenance and quality criteria of data are vitally important for future geoenergy activities and public confidence in subsurface activities. Finally, we ask should there be minimum data collection criterion, such as resolution requirements, ahead of subsurface activities with potentially significant impacts to the environment, economy, and society?

show abstract

“…In Germany, for instance [55], by 2013, and because of the national Energiewende policy of developing renewable and phasing out nuclear and carbon energy sources, nearly half of the new installed capacity for renewables is already operated by civil society at local and community levels. As Kropp [55] argues 'renewable energies entail a significant re-composition of the socio-eco-technical links between landscapes, energy and society, accompanied by fierce debates on energy policy'.…”

Section: Conclusion: Exploring the Fragmented And Contested Energy/amentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Marx indeed noted that, as Kropp [55] quotes: 'the hand mill gives you society with the feudal lord, the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist [56]. One might therefore now ask what types of new oligarchies or panarchies the renewable revolution will encourage?…”

Section: Conclusion: Exploring the Fragmented And Contested Energy/amentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We can expect an increasing (but uneven) demand upon rural land-as we indeed witnessed with the first wave of bio-fuels (2007-8), for use for renewable energy sources. The role of a reflexive and facilitative multi-level state, as Kropp [55] identifies in Bavaria, will be critical in both stimulating and shaping these transitions to what she calls a 'third modernity'.…”

Section: Conclusion: Exploring the Fragmented And Contested Energy/amentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

After COP21: Contested Transformations in the Energy/Agri-Food Nexus

Marsden

Rucinska

2019

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

To what extent are we witnessing real transformatory change towards a low- or zero-carbon economy following the optimism surrounding the COP21 Paris agreements? Taking the energy/agri-food nexus as a major focus, the paper examines what it regards as highly contested co-evolutionary trends associated both with carbonised and geo-politically motivated ‘lock-in’ on the one hand, but nevertheless, the rise of significant post-carbon strategies and practices on the other. The latter may be significantly encouraged by the rise of what are termed as ‘stranded assets’ and disinvestments in the financial investment sector, and the opportunities for more distributed systems of production in the energy/agri-food nexus. These shifts suggest a more polyvalent set of post-carbonised capitalist and post-capitalist processes which demand a renewed political- ecological approach by scholars in understanding these multiple resources and transformatory processes. Overall, this would suggest that the transformations before us will not assume a ‘business as usual’ model of conventional (and concentrated) capitalist development.

show abstract

Controversies around energy landscapes in third modernity

Cited by 19 publications

References 25 publications

Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future

Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future

Suitability of Legacy Subsurface Data for Nascent Geoenergy Activities Onshore United Kingdom

After COP21: Contested Transformations in the Energy/Agri-Food Nexus

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About