Procedural and distributive justice inform subjectivity regarding wind power: A case from Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Frate, Cláudio Albuquerque; Brannstrom, Christian; Morais, Marcus Vinícius Girão de; Caldeira-Pires, Armando

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2019.05.027

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“…Work on community energy treats the tenets of energy justice as separate components of a justice framework (Frate, Brannstrom, de Morais, & Caldeira-Pires, 2019;Gross, 2007;Liebe et al, 2017;Mundaca et al, 2018;Walker & Baxter, 2017b). However, as these findings show, there is a need to treat them as interdependent, meaning that no conclusions can be drawn about one, without drawing conclusions on the others.…”

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Community Heroes and Sleeping Members: Interdependency of the Tenets of Energy Justice

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Energy justice literature generally treats its three tenets, distributional justice, procedural justice and recognition justice, as separate and independent issues. These are seen as separate dimensions by which criteria can be formulated for a just state of affairs. And a just state of affairs regarding energy should fulfill all criteria. However, we show, using empirical research on six European energy communities that the tenets of energy justice are interdependent and negotiated in practice. We show this interdependency using three core concerns of justice—risk, effort and power—which we identified through our empirical work. Our findings reveal that community members are often willing to take risks and put in effort, if they are compensated with more power within the community. Similarly, members are willing to compromise power if no effort or risk-taking is required from them. This demonstrates the interdependency of the tenets “procedural justice” and “distributional justice” within energy communities. We reflect on the need for energy justice theory and policymakers to recognize the significance of this interdependency.

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“…Protecting some values and integrating them in design is complicated by the degree of subjectivity involved, such as landscape values and certain livability values [16]. Some of these values are very much individually, and sometimes elusively, conceptualized.…”

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“…Previous research looking at responses to wind projects from a value point of view has described the values involved in wind energy development [14], theoretically explored the merit of value sensitivity [9], empirically analyzed the values represented in the physical and institutional design of offshore wind [15], and looked into the situatedness of value conflicts of onshore wind [16]. However, to our knowledge, no previous empirical research has put the focus explicitly on design attempts to make wind projects more sensitive to the values of local stakeholders and improve their acceptability, while a focus on design may have unused potential and could be a welcome addition to participative planning strategies.…”

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Being a Better Neighbor: A Value-Based Perspective on Negotiating Acceptability of Locally-Owned Wind Projects

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We pose that instead of problematizing negative attitudes of local stakeholders, such as citizens and NGOs, wind energy implementers should be more focused on scrutinizing the acceptability of their projects. The emphasis in this study is on the potential for representation of local stakeholders’ values in the project design, including amongst others business model and placement. Informed by value sensitive design literature, we analyzed two contrasting, locally-owned wind projects in the Dutch province of Groningen: the implementation of mini-turbines in a national landscape and a large-scale multi MW wind project in an industrialized area close to a World Heritage nature reserve. The study analyses how the respective farmer-developers and other local stakeholders attempted to resolve or ameliorate inter- and intra-value conflicts regarding livability, economy, landscape, and nature. The value conflicts turned out to be fruitful to identifying key issues and creating more widely shared value conceptualizations and design priorities. Hence, from this study it can be concluded that value conflict can be productive if carefully unpacked and managed. Uneven power distribution among stakeholders in the planning process, overcoming incommensurability of perspectives, and creating intersubjectivity remain challenges.

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“…No contexto brasileiro, as análises geográficas sobre questões energéticas renováveis são preliminares (BRANNSTROM; TRALDI, 2019) e ainda não conseguiram acompanhar o rápido crescimento na capacidade da energia eólica e solar, ambas já instaladas no país (JUÁREZ et al, 2014;AQUILA et al, 2017). No entanto, destacam-se estudos sobre os conflitos sociais gerados entre comunidade e empreendimento eólico (CHAVES et al 2018;DANTAS et al, 2019;FRATE et al, 2019), assim como as abordagens econômico-políticas dos conflitos (MEIRELES, 2011;BRANNSTROM et al, 2017;GORAYEB et al, 2018) e a justificativa das localizações geográficas dos parques eólicos (BRANNSTROM et al, 2018).…”

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Licenciamento Ambiental E Oposição Social À Energia Eólica: Estudo De Caso Com Foco No Social Gap Em Comunidade Litorânea Do Ceará, Brasil

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2020

Rev. Geogr. (Recife, Online)

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O artigo apresenta estudo sobre a implantação de um parque eólico no litoral oeste do Ceará, com foco na análise de como o processo de licenciamento resultou na invisibilização de uma comunidade tradicional a 250 metros de distância dos aerogeradores. O processo tornou os moradores “ocultos” aos tomadores de decisão, no caso, o órgão estadual licenciador, que forneceu as aprovações legais necessárias para a construção do parque eólico. A oposição da comunidade ao parque eólico está enraizada nas reivindicações pela perda de parte do território tradicional e de seus recursos naturais, especialmente uma lagoa perene utilizada há gerações, para lazer e pesca, que foi suprimida durante as obras de construção do empreendimento. Os esforços de mitigação dos impactos, capitaneados pelas instituições de assistência social e jurídica, juntamente com o Ministério Público, produziram resultados contraditórios. Falhas no processo de licenciamento ambiental e as consequências dos esforços de mitigação dos impactos resultaram em desgastes e conflitos internos comunitários, em vários níveis. Este trabalho expõe os resultados empíricos da pesquisa na perspectiva de análise do conceito social gap, amplamente discutido na literatura internacional, que enfoca a discrepância entre o apoio da opinião pública nacional favorável em contraste à oposição local. A situação exposta nesta pesquisa, provavelmente, está presente em outros locais onde existem parques de energia eólica instalados, porém ainda é parcamente relatada na literatura acadêmica nacional.

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Procedural and distributive justice inform subjectivity regarding wind power: A case from Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Cited by 38 publications

References 52 publications

Community Heroes and Sleeping Members: Interdependency of the Tenets of Energy Justice

Community Heroes and Sleeping Members: Interdependency of the Tenets of Energy Justice

Being a Better Neighbor: A Value-Based Perspective on Negotiating Acceptability of Locally-Owned Wind Projects

Licenciamento Ambiental E Oposição Social À Energia Eólica: Estudo De Caso Com Foco No Social Gap Em Comunidade Litorânea Do Ceará, Brasil

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