Renewable Energy Projects: Acceptance Risks and Their Management

Hitzeroth, Marion; Megerle, Andreas

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2013.07.022

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“…Individuals with stronger environmental attitudes and higher levels of awareness of ecological problems are reported to view wind energy as a benefit to the environment [59], yet several studies have shown stronger environmental attitudes correlating with opposition to wind energy at the local level [29]. Strong attitudes can influence supportive or oppositional behavior and have become a focal point in energy research from the social sciences [59,28,61,53]. However, strong attitudes may not always demonstrate intent to undertake civic action [25,37].…”

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“…Expectations are a reflection of beliefs about the future, shaped by the attitudinal parameters of acceptance or opposition, within a specific socio-cultural frame of reference and a specific spatial and temporal context [25,61]. Individuals will have different expectations for the outcomes of wind projects, based on how they perceive their landscape, their level of interaction with wind turbines, and their attitudes towards the environment and wind industry, among other factors such as the developer's stated goals [54].…”

Section: Attitudes and Expectationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Beauty in motion: Expectations, attitudes, and values of wind energy development in the rural U.S

Fergen

Jacquet

2016

Energy Research & Social Science

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Section: Attitudes and Expectationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Attitudes and Expectationsmentioning

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Beauty in motion: Expectations, attitudes, and values of wind energy development in the rural U.S

Fergen

Jacquet

2016

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Hizeroth et al [24] define the term acceptance as all positive attitude parameters adopted by the parties involved in the planning of a project. An attitude parameter is a socio-cultural result influenced by people's perceptions and experiences, as well as their expectations of the improvement of their realities.…”

Section: Community Acceptance and Renewable Energymentioning

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On the Acceptance and Sustainability of Renewable Energy Projects—A Systems Thinking Perspective

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Rapid population growth and increasing concern related to improving the living standards in impoverished communities without damaging the natural environment have drawn attention to the adoption of renewable energy systems (RES) around the world. Despite this global trend, the implementation of these projects has not succeeded completely in rural poor communities due to several factors, including social barriers faced at the time of their execution. These social barriers lead to poor acceptance of the projects and their consequent abandonment. Acceptance is a social construct that is influenced by several factors that need to be understood to achieve successful and sustainable results in the future. In this paper, we develop a conceptual model, based on principles of sustainability and systems thinking, to understand the interrelationships among the main factors that have been reported in the literature as key to determining the sustainability and community acceptance of RES projects. To do so, we review the existing literature on sustainability and social acceptance of RES and then construct a causal-loop diagram of their driving factors. While doing so, we also view the problem through the lens of the sustainable livelihoods framework, aiming to maintain the perspective of rural communities and observing the impacts of RES on their contextual reality. The resulting model helps to understand the multiple interactions that RES projects have with rural communities as well as identify potential intervention points for future projects. We end the paper with a discussion of the implications of the model and how can it be used to inform future rural energy decision making.

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“…It has also raised questions about its policy and practical implications [14] and about the conceptual, definitional and methodological basis of research on social and public acceptance in this area [15] [16] [17]. Although there have been significant contributions in terms of describing the social and public acceptance of various energy technologies in multiple contexts, as well as in terms of understanding the factors influencing this, there arguably remain not only conceptual and analytical issues yet to be clarified and pursued, but also the matter of competing or alternative paradigms has become somewhat vexed in the sense of sometimes becoming polarized in terms of preferred perspectives [18].…”

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Towards a cross-paradigmatic framework of the social acceptance of energy systems

Upham

Oltra²,

Boso

2015

Energy Research & Social Science

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As the significance of public opinion and practice for energy system change has become more widely understood, an expanding body of work is investigating drivers of social and public acceptance of a wide diversity of energy technologies, both infrastructure and end-user applications. The literature is large and spans multiple contexts, methods, theoretical and disciplinary perspectives and paradigms. While this diversity is in many ways healthy, experience suggests that it can be confusing for those without close knowledge of its constituent parts. Here we set out a framework for thinking about energy technology 'acceptance' that is relatively neutral in normative and theoretical terms, while acknowledging that a full integration of perspectives and complete theoretical neutrality are not possible. We do not claim a comprehensive review base, but draw on our experience to illustrate the diversity of what we regard as the more influential perspectives in the literature.

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Renewable Energy Projects: Acceptance Risks and Their Management

Cited by 60 publications

References 16 publications

Beauty in motion: Expectations, attitudes, and values of wind energy development in the rural U.S

Beauty in motion: Expectations, attitudes, and values of wind energy development in the rural U.S

On the Acceptance and Sustainability of Renewable Energy Projects—A Systems Thinking Perspective

Towards a cross-paradigmatic framework of the social acceptance of energy systems

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