Societal acceptance of an emerging energy technology: How is geothermal energy portrayed in Australian media?

Romanach, Lygia; Carr-Cornish, Simone; Muriuki, Grace

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2014.10.088

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“…Existing media research has revealed that the media coverage on renewable energies is dominated by economic and technological aspects (Haigh, 2010;Sengers et al, 2010;Heras-Saizarbitoria et al, 2011;Wright and Reid, 2011;Skjølsvold, 2012; e.g., Eklöf and Mager, 2013;Hindmarsh, 2014;Romanach et al, 2015;Stauffacher et al, 2015). However, environmental aspects of renewable energies, including problems and benefits, also play a major role in media coverage (Thompson, 2005;Hindmarsh, 2014;Kim et al, 2014;Djerf-Pierre et al, 2015).…”

Section: Framing Renewable Energy In the Mediamentioning

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Explaining the Media's Framing of Renewable Energies: An International Comparison

Rochyadi-Reetz

Arlt

Wolling

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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The use of renewable energies has been rapidly expanding worldwide; however, in numerous countries this has resulted in public controversy. Building upon Entman's framing concept, a quantitative content analysis was conducted to examine the media's framing of renewable energies in 11 countries between 2010 and 2012. To explain the observed differences in media coverage, we considered national structural conditions. Furthermore, we investigated whether media framing changed after an external shock, the Fukushima accident. The findings show that renewable energies were covered through three different frames, (1) the first highlighting economic and technological problems, (2) the second focusing on environmental and social problems and (3) the third considering positive aspects of the technologies. To some extent, the occurrence of these frames is influenced by the national structural conditions. The study revealed that the Fukushima accident did not cause the expected changes in framing.

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Section: Framing Renewable Energy In the Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Studies from Asia include Biddinika et al (2014) and Qu et al (2009). Studies from Australia include Djerf-Pierre et al 2015, Hindmarsh (2014) and Romanach et al (2015). One study examines Canada (Deignan and Hoffman-Goetz, 2015).…”

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Explaining the Media's Framing of Renewable Energies: An International Comparison

Rochyadi-Reetz

Arlt

Wolling

et al. 2019

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Social acceptance is necessary for the development of energy technology. In the last decade, there have been countless investigations of public concerns about energy technologies, including nuclear power plants, one of the most controversial topics on the world today (Romanach et al, 2015(Romanach et al, : 1144. In China People's Republic, a causal model explaining university students' acceptance of nuclear power by structural equation model was developed.…”

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An Investigation on The Social Acceptance of Nuclear Energy: A Case Study on University Students

Yıldız

Arı²

2019

ije

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In this study, the causal relationships between the factors related to nuclear energy acceptance and the sensitivity of young generations to nuclear energy are examined with structural equation model. The data obtained by the questionnaire applied to 521 students studying at the faculties of the Kütahya Dumlupınar University were analyzed. The students were asked the questions related to the latent variables which are perceived benefits of energy supply, perceived environmental benefits, risk perception, trust and acceptance. While risk perception has a statistically significant and negative effect on acceptance, the effects of other latent variables in the model have found to be positive.

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“…The media framing of the reporting on geothermal energy influenced this matter. The risks and negative impacts associated with geothermal technology tended to be reported more often compared with its economic potential and technological development (Romanach, Carr-Cornish, and Muriuki 2015).…”

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“…This paper explored the contexts of the social movement to reject geothermal energy in Banyumas Regency, Indonesia, by using the environmental justice movement approach and emphasizing the topics related to injustice and policy formulation that significantly affect the environment. Researchers that have investigated topics related to socioenvironmental conflicts in geothermal energy, such as in Germany (Kunze and Hertel 2017), Italy (Pellizzone et al 2017), and Australia (Dowd et al 2011;Romanach, Carr-Cornish, and Muriuki 2015), and Switzerland (Stauffacher et al 2015), have attempted to explain the history of the rejection of geothermal energy exploration in various parts of the world, societal acceptance of geothermal energy, media coverage of geothermal technology, and how the resistance affected the development of renewable energy. Notably, not been much research has been carried out to analyze resistance strategies and discourses engineered by anti-geothermal energy movements.…”

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Key Elements of Environmental Justice in the Geothermal Power Plant Resistance Movement

Santoso

Kusumasari

2019

Jurnal Politik

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Geothermal energy is currently considered an environmentally friendly, renewable energy source. However, based on empirical data from various countries, geothermal energy production often results socio-ecological losses for the host community. Various environmental justice movements have emerged to protect environment by protesting and providing a counter discourse against the dominant perception that geothermal energy is renewable and environmentally friendly. This article aimed to understand how the strategy and discourse of the Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet (freely translated into Save Slamet Alliance) movement in rejecting the construction of the Baturraden Geothermal Power Plant (PLTPB) in Banyumas by outlining the key elements and specific conditions observed. Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet is intriguing because it has achieved active involvement of various elements through its respective perspectives to jointly reject the construction of the PLTPB. Using a theoretical framework of the movement strategy, we examined how Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet determined the selection of targets, framing, time, and relations in the resistance movement. The method was a qualitative approach: a review of primary data in the form of interviews and written documents. The results indicate sociopolitical conditions, relations between organizations, and organizational cultures also influence the strategies and discourses that the Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet movement created.

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Societal acceptance of an emerging energy technology: How is geothermal energy portrayed in Australian media?

Cited by 45 publications

References 29 publications

Explaining the Media's Framing of Renewable Energies: An International Comparison

Explaining the Media's Framing of Renewable Energies: An International Comparison

An Investigation on The Social Acceptance of Nuclear Energy: A Case Study on University Students

Key Elements of Environmental Justice in the Geothermal Power Plant Resistance Movement

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