Solar city, bike city, growth city: governance and energy in Davis, California

Weil, Benjamin

doi:10.2458/v20i1.21762

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“…This concept can be found in individuals living in the same geographical area, where relationships are based on a well-localised level of trust that considers friends, relatives, and neighbours as social actors. Individuals with whom close-knit relationships are established usually share the same values, attitudes, and behaviours [17,18]. A negative effect that can occur in a predominantly bonding environment is a limitation on the part of the community to positively consider development and innovation processes, as relationships with individuals outside the network are limited.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework Of Scmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Capital and Energy Transition: A Conceptual Review

Giacovelli

2022

Sustainability

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The impact of social factors in energy transition has become increasingly important in recent decades. In this context, Social Capital (SC) has been used to give greater importance to social aspects that can influence community involvement in the energy transition. Two approaches were used to select the academic literature on SC and energy transition for this review, (1) a keyword search through the main bibliographical databases to ascertain the number of articles on this topic and (2) a theoretical investigation of certain aspects that unite or differentiate the various articles. Specifically, this review paper considers the different definitions given to SC in the energy field, the dimensions and indicators of SC considered in different studies, and the methods, qualitative or quantitative, used to operationalise SC. The review stresses some weaknesses in the literature, such as the split in the definition of SC in relation to the energy transition, the interaction of SC with social rather than individual factors of the person, and indicators of SC that can influence, positively or negatively, energy transition. A shared methodology should be developed with a multidisciplinary approach that would allow SC to be considered in its totality.

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Section: Theoretical Framework Of Scmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Capital and Energy Transition: A Conceptual Review

Giacovelli

2022

Sustainability

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“…From Latin America, we then move to California in the United States. Our first stop is the city of Davis in California, with a case study by Ben Weil that examines attempts at creating more livable urban spaces in the city (Weil 2013). Although Davis is an affluent bubble in the first world, the lessons from there are relevant to several on-going efforts around the world to actualize new green urban utopias.…”

Section: Our Case Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecologies of Hope: environment, technology and habitation - case studies from the intervenient middle

Rajan

Duncan

2013

Journal of Political Ecology

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This paper is an introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Political Ecology on "Ecologies of Hope." The authors argue that discrete, specific, and often, local actions can create spaces that are bettering human lives and livelihoods. The five papers identify actions and movements that are situated in the "middle" between the individual and larger social and economic formations, and inbetween social and economic status- quo and revolution. They are everyday initiatives that do not make revolutionary claims, but which in small but significant ways, help transform the lives of people and communities. These "ecologies of hope" resonate with the work of Karl Polanyi, and his identification of the modern disembedding of the economy and the environment from its societal and cultural context. Polanyi argued that processes that result in a loss of cultural "habitation" engender movements by societies to protect their social solidarity, and distortions of their relationship with the natural environment. Creating and carving out "ecologies of hope" may not mitigate catastrophic global change or miraculously transform the unjust into the just, but does make life and livelihoods a bit more habitable. For people whose lives are affected, this matters. Political ecology should recognize the importance of creating spaces for "habitation" that are not necessarily structural and scalable.Key words: Karl Polanyi, ecologies of hope, habitation, self-organized communities.

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“…A lack of scientific, technical, and economic resources means that adequate management and enforcement may not be possible. Yet, where the legislative interest and resources exist, activists can use subnational venues to open the process, encourage more public participation, and reduce power and information asymmetries (see Weil 2013). However, full-fledged governance institutions, with public participation, and a broad public health and environmental agenda, are still far off.…”

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confidence: 99%