A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures: Going beyond green growth and sustainability

by Susana Batel (Editor), David Rudolph (Editor)

Overview

This book provides a critical approach to research on the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures and on energy transitions in general by questioning prevalent principles and proposing specific research pathways and lines of inquiry that look beyond depoliticised, business-as-usual discourses and research agendas on green growth and sustainability. It brings together authors from different socio-geographical and disciplinary backgrounds within the social sciences to reflect upon, discuss and advance what we propose to be five cornerstones of a critical approach: overcoming individualism and socio-cognitivism; repoliticisations – recognising and articulating power relations; for interdisciplinarity; interventions – praxis and political engagement with research; and overcoming localism and spatial determinism: As such, this book offers academics, students and practitioners alike a comprehensive perspective of what it means to be critical when inquiring into the socialacceptance of renewable energy and associated infrastructures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030736989
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	08/25/2021
Edition description:	1st ed. 2021
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Susana Batel is an environmental psychologist at the University Institute of Lisbon interested in people’s engagement with energy transitions and associated social justice issues. She has published in journals like the Journal of Environmental Psychology, Energy Policy and Energy Research & Social Science, and is co-editor of Papers on Social Representations.

David Rudolph is a human geographer at the Technical University of Denmark with an interest in just, inclusive and equitable low-carbon energy transitions. He has published in journals such as Antipode, Environment and Planning C and Energy Research & Social Science.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. A Critical Approach to the Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Infrastructures.- Chapter 2. Strategies for Integrating Quantitative Methods into Critical Social Acceptance Research.- Chapter 3. Using a Critical Approach to Unpack the Visual-Spatial Impacts of Energy Infrastructures.- Chapter 4. Getting Used to It, But …? Rethinking the Elusive U-Curve of Acceptance and Post-Construction
Assumptions.- Chapter 5. Does Renewable Energy Exist? Fossil Fuel+ Technologies and the Search for Renewable Energy.- Chapter 6. ANT Perspective on Wind Power Planning and Social Acceptance—A Call for Interdisciplinarity.- Chapter 7. Social Acceptance and Interdisciplinarity: Understanding the Constructive Power of Terminology.- Chapter 8. Social Acceptance: Beyond Criticism and Critical, a Call for Experimental Ontology.- Chapter 9. How to Assess What Society Wants? The Need for a Renewed Social Conflict Research Agenda.- Chapter10. Provincial Polyphasia: Community Energy Generation and the Politics of Sustainability Transition in Alberta, Canada.- Chapter 11. People-Place Bonds, Rhetorical Meaning-Making and “Doing Acceptance” to a Renewable Energy Infrastructure: Postcolonial Insights from the Global
South.- Chapter 12. Energy Justice and Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Projects in the Global South.- Chapter 13. Contributions, Tensions and Future Avenues: A Discussion./

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Our urgent energy transition faces many social and technological challenges. While there is a much attention on the latter, the way in which society and technology interact is still problematic, poorly understood and under-appreciated. This book provides a very valuable contribution to this important field, providing original and critical insights from an impressive cohort of established and emerging scholars, and should be on the book shelf of everyone making policy, developing infrastructure or undertaking research that progresses the energy transition.” (Geraint Ellis, Professor in the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University, Belfast, UK)