(Dis)connected communities and sustainable place-making

Franklin, Alexandra; Marsden, Terry

doi:10.1080/13549839.2013.879852

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“…At the macro-level, various country and regional comparative studies have noted a positive correlation between high degrees of local ownership and/or participation in planning processes on the one hand, and public support for wind power on the other [125][126][127][128]. This suggests that the effect of community ownership on public support for renewable energy may be cumulative and manifest itself in higher overall deployment rates.…”

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Taking stock of the local impacts of community owned renewable energy: A review and research agenda

Berka

Creamer

2018

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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A growing literature suggests that community owned renewable energy (CRE) projects have the potential to deliver a range of environmental and local socio-economic benefits. There is relatively little empirical evidence to substantiate this, with few systematic efforts to assess social and environmental impacts or to understand the context in which given impacts arise. In this paper, we review and conceptualise the local impacts commonly cited in the literature and dissect the empirical evidence currently available to support their occurrence. Having assessed the quality of evidence and pinpointed knowledge gaps, we draw on methodological literature to identify approaches necessary to improve our understanding of the local impacts of CRE and explore their patterns of occurrence. We find a lack of robust survey and statistical evidence across all the seven impact categories identified. Of the impacts identified, 'empowerment' and 'access to affordable energy' are found to be the least studied. In addition, several impacts are associated only with specific types of community energy projects. We argue that the paucity of consistent evidence for direct impacts associated with the development processes and direct outcomes of projects suggests that the most substantial local impacts result from medium to long term indirect project outcomes and the investment of project revenues in the local community. As such, collective funding pools and negotiation processes around their distribution towards private versus public goods play a crucial role in determining transformative local impacts of CRE.

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Taking stock of the local impacts of community owned renewable energy: A review and research agenda

Berka

Creamer

2018

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…Taking a critical perspective requires us to understand that each time community is engaged with as an arm's length agent of the state (or similar institution), it is imagined to be constituted of subjects acting in a particular way . Such imagined subjectivities impact in turn on how community members understand their own subjectivities as agents.…”

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Researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts: an emerging critical approach

Aiken

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Sallu

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WIREs Climate Change

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In a 2011 contribution to this journal, Walker examined the ways that community is routinely employed in carbon governance, suggesting the need for more critical approaches. Here, we characterize an emerging, critical approach to researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts, focusing attention principally on the global north, where this body of research has emerged. This work recognizes communities as sites of contestation, difference, tension, and distinction, in which action on climate change can be designed to meet a range of political and public ends. It aims to uncover the political and social context for community action on climate change, to be alert to the power relations inside and outside of communities, and to the context of neoliberalism, including individualism, the will to quantify, and competition. Furthermore, research in this space is committed to understanding both the lived experience of the messy empirical worlds we encounter, and the potential agency coalescing in community responses to climate change. Much of the work to date, discussed here, has focused on communities working on climate change mitigation in the global north, in which the idea of community as a space for governance is gaining traction. We also comment on the positioning of these arguments in the context of long‐standing debates in the fields of ‘community‐based’ development, natural resource management, and adaptation in the global South. This discussion establishes a foundation from which to progress learning across fields and geopolitical boundaries, furthering critical thinking on ‘community.’ WIREs Clim Change 2017, 8:e463. doi: 10.1002/wcc.463 This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Behavior Change and Responses Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Climate Science and Social Movements

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“…; van der Ploeg and Marsden ; Marsden ; Horlings and Marsden ). This body of work emphasises the more contingent social, economic and political regionalisation and differentiation of regions and places, and the new relations and ‘equations’ which are emerging between urban and rural places (see Franklin and Marsden ).…”

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“…Building and drawing from these 'macro' theories of transition, I wish to progress a more grounded socio-spatial approach to contested sustainability transitions drawing on earlier work in contributing to theories of rural and regional development (see Murdoch et al 2003;van der Ploeg and Marsden 2008;Marsden 2013;Horlings and Marsden 2014). This body of work emphasises the more contingent social, economic and political regionalisation and differentiation of regions and places, and the new relations and 'equations' which are emerging between urban and rural places (see Franklin and Marsden 2014). This is more 'grounded' in the sense that it counterpoises how new, alternative assemblages or 'niches' are dialectically engaged through, for instance, the making and breaking of market boundaries; different regulatory and institutional frameworks; politics and policy frameworks, science and technological logics, with the more dominant -to employ MLP language -socio-technical regimes.…”

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Exploring the Rural Eco‐Economy: Beyond Neoliberalism

Marsden

2016

Sociologia Ruralis

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Rural areas become central sites for the development of the post‐carbon transition, yet this is a highly contested and contingent process whereby neo‐liberal models of development and framings compete with the emergence of the alternative circular eco‐economy. The article argues for a grounded conceptual and empirical approach in tracing this overall process of sustainable place‐making. It explores three key highly contested dimensions: reflexive governance, distributed eco‐economies, and re‐financialisation, arguing that such explorations are critical in developing more sustainable rural‐urban functionalities for the necessary post‐ carbon and post‐neoliberal transition.

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(Dis)connected communities and sustainable place-making

Cited by 40 publications

References 32 publications

Taking stock of the local impacts of community owned renewable energy: A review and research agenda

Taking stock of the local impacts of community owned renewable energy: A review and research agenda

Researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts: an emerging critical approach

Exploring the Rural Eco‐Economy: Beyond Neoliberalism

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