The Global Challenge of Encouraging Sustainable Living: Opportunities, Barriers, Policy and Practice

Hipwood, Tara

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2015.1020535

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“…In some cases, these processes have been associated with repopulation to above critical threshold levels in which rural communities can sustain themselves [50,54,55]. This potential for socio-economic regeneration is not likely to be restricted to the UK, nor to rural areas, since case-study literature documents 'need-based' CRE initiatives that seek to play larger development roles in response to socio-economic deprivation or natural disasters in both rural and (peri-) urban areas elsewhere in the world [56][57][58].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Strong local interpersonal networks and trust are widely cited as both a precondition [5,14,38,50,51,56,79,[94][95][96][97][98][99][100] and a potential outcome [35,50,75,79,101,102] of CRE projects.…”

Section: Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…'Bridging' or 'linking' social capital has not been explicitly analysed in the context of the relationship between CRE organisations and state and market institutions. However, many studies have observed the substantial role of trusted social networks with intermediaries and local authorities in connecting, knowledge brokering, facilitating and lobbying on behalf of CRE projects [12,13,18,36,38,56,76,89,[107][108][109][110]. Several authors have suggested that the integration of community energy support programmes within existing networks and institutions for rural development and land use has contributed to the rapid uptake of CRE in Scotland [35,49,51,111].…”

Section: Social Capital As a Preconditionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several authors have suggested that the integration of community energy support programmes within existing networks and institutions for rural development and land use has contributed to the rapid uptake of CRE in Scotland [35,49,51,111]. Strong interpersonal connections and trust have also been conceptualised as a precondition for CRE projects to generate awareness raising, interpersonal learning and fostering of norms around environmentally oriented behaviour change and energy poverty alleviation [18,34,35,36,56,112,113] (see 4.5 and 4.6 below).…”

Section: Social Capital As a Preconditionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…CRE projects are typically co-ordinated by small core teams whose motivation and leadership style heavily influence social capital development [5,34,35,56,112].The literature suggests that CRE leaders who see themselves as part of local protest movements against a unified cause are more likely to engage in community building than those who are less ideologically driven [31,157,181]. In certain contexts, stakeholder conflict around a local issue has itself been the impetus for inclusive community building efforts [104].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Taking stock of the local impacts of community owned renewable energy: A review and research agenda

Berka

Creamer

2018

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

197

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A growing literature suggests that community owned renewable energy (CRE) projects have the potential to deliver a range of environmental and local socio-economic benefits. There is relatively little empirical evidence to substantiate this, with few systematic efforts to assess social and environmental impacts or to understand the context in which given impacts arise. In this paper, we review and conceptualise the local impacts commonly cited in the literature and dissect the empirical evidence currently available to support their occurrence. Having assessed the quality of evidence and pinpointed knowledge gaps, we draw on methodological literature to identify approaches necessary to improve our understanding of the local impacts of CRE and explore their patterns of occurrence. We find a lack of robust survey and statistical evidence across all the seven impact categories identified. Of the impacts identified, 'empowerment' and 'access to affordable energy' are found to be the least studied. In addition, several impacts are associated only with specific types of community energy projects. We argue that the paucity of consistent evidence for direct impacts associated with the development processes and direct outcomes of projects suggests that the most substantial local impacts result from medium to long term indirect project outcomes and the investment of project revenues in the local community. As such, collective funding pools and negotiation processes around their distribution towards private versus public goods play a crucial role in determining transformative local impacts of CRE.

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