La mise en politique de la transition énergétique : la durabilité à l’épreuve des conflits de temporalités

Durand, Laura G.; Oiry, Annaig; Palle, Angélique

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“…This tends to depoliticize those that are presented as mitigators of greenhouse gas emissions. However, this framing does not exhaust the debate, as shown by the case of the SNEC and other work on renewable energy [10]. The time frame of the transition and the insertion of the project into the local context are all subjects of re-politicization.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Our survey method did not aim to collect a representative sample of the population's opinions, but to identify ecologically sound views, which could be in the minority. We conducted 31 semi-structured interviews with 29 people involved as experts or spokespersons in the governance of biodiversity in the area under study and working in government departments [4], for the canal company or the Voies Navigables de France public agency [5], in chambers of commerce, industry or agriculture [2], at local authorities [9] and for non-profit associations [10]. The four sociologists of the project used the same interview guide.…”

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(Re)politicization of climate change mitigating projects: environmental forms and motives of the Seine Nord Europe canal

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Bouleau²,

Guimont

2022

Eur J Futures Res

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Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies are gaining visibility and support. Decision-makers are defending the extension of large infrastructures that are low greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters, as a way to act quickly and massively without calling into question existing economic models. This situation depoliticizes these projects, masking their other ecological consequences such as their impacts on biodiversity. This article examines how promoters of these projects depoliticized its socio-technical futures while other actors re-politicized them. Using the example of the Seine Nord Europe Canal project, we show a politicization of the territorial future and a depoliticization of the environmental future. This depoliticization is based on the techno-optimist discourse promoting large-scale infrastructures as the only possible solution to the global ecological and climate crisis. It uses a selective framing of the environment that makes some elements visible and others invisible. We conducted semi-structured interviews with biodiversity stakeholders in the territories that would be impacted by the canal. Based on the concepts of environmental forms and motives, we reconstructed the environmental ontologies ignored by the dominant discourse and assembled them into three alternative scenarios. We present the method of investigation and identification of these motives and discuss the likelihood of the constructed scenarios participating in a re-politicization based on the reactions of various actors.

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(Re)politicization of climate change mitigating projects: environmental forms and motives of the Seine Nord Europe canal

Petitimbert

Bouleau²,

Guimont

2022

Eur J Futures Res

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“…The case-study explores the effects of the ongoing sustainable transition on the structure of the political landscape and of the energy sector The example of the European Union presents a focus on the conflicting representations of the ongoing sustainable transitions, leading to question of choosing the "the right scale and level" for a European transition policy. For example, groups of citizens sometimes see the transition process as local empowerment based on local projects that conflict with European institutions' or national governments' transition strategy to develop large national or transnational infrastructures [15].…”

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Palle

2021

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…These two visions of the transition and the scale at which it should happen, clash over specific territorial projects. For example, on the one hand the EU funds and supports large infrastructure projects, such as new transport lines for the power network to incorporate renewable plants and reinforce the network to face the challenge of production intermittency, while on the other hand these projects are opposed by the local population who consider them exogenous to the territory and incompatible with their vision of a local transition (Cain & Nelson 2013;Oiry 2015;Durand, Oiry & Palle 2018).…”

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“…• Second, because these different actors' visions of what an energy transition is and should be are sometimes incompatible, as shown by the example of opposition movements against power lines (Cain & Nelson 2013;Oiry 2015;Durand, Oiry & Palle 2018). In this case, we have seen that one of the main lines of opposition is the scale at which infrastructures and governance should be designed.…”

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Multilevel Governance or Scalar Clashes: Finding the Right Scale for EU Energy Policy

Palle

Richard

2021

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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The European energy policy is based on two major pillars: integration (of infrastructure networks, markets, standards, and policies) and transition, as set out by European climate policies and by the upcoming Green Deal. The governance model for this common EU policy and the shared energy system it supports is mostly based on multilevel governance (MLG) theories, grounded in the principle of subsidiarity. This paper questions the possibility of MLG in the field of energy, in compliance with the European subsidiarity principle. The coexistence of diverse energy models promoting different scales of reference and actors may result in 'scalar clashes': this hybrid model creates a chaotic status quo, disrupting the EU's transition towards renewable energy sources. Building a common European energy policy that combines the dual objectives of transition and integration does not just require upscaling energy systems, but also setting the adequate scale(s) to implement this transition.

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La mise en politique de la transition énergétique : la durabilité à l’épreuve des conflits de temporalités

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

(Re)politicization of climate change mitigating projects: environmental forms and motives of the Seine Nord Europe canal

(Re)politicization of climate change mitigating projects: environmental forms and motives of the Seine Nord Europe canal

Bringing geopolitics to energy transition research

Multilevel Governance or Scalar Clashes: Finding the Right Scale for EU Energy Policy

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