Renewable energy and the public : from NIMBY to participation
Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon electricity or heat. This book presents an overview of the critical issues involved in public engagement with low carbon energy technologies
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London ; Washington, DC :
Earthscan ,
c2011
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Symmetries, expectations, dynamics and contexts: a framework for understanding public engagement with renewable energy projects
- 2. 'Planning and persuasion' : public engagement in decision-making about renewable energy decision-making
- 3. Beyond consensus? Agonism, republicanism and a low carbon future
- 4. Public roles and socio-technical configurations: diversity in renewable energy deployment in the UK and its implications
- 5. From Backyards to Places: Public engagement and the emplacement of renewable energy technologies
- 6. Discourses on the implementation of wind power: Stakeholder views on public engagement
- 7. Governing the Reconfiguration of Energy in Greater London: Practical Public Engagement as 'Delivery'
- 8. Envisioning public engagement with renewable energy: an empirical analysis of images within the UK National Press 2006/7
- 9. NIMBYism and community consultation in electricity transmission network planning
- 10. Turning the heat on: Public engagement in Australia's energy future
- 11. Shaping people's engagement with microgeneration technology: the case of solar photovoltaics in UK homes
- 12. Siting Solar Power in Arizona: A Public Value Failure?
- 13. Socio-Environmental Research on Energy Sustainable Communities: Participation Experiences of Two Decades
- 14. Yes in my back yard: UK householders pioneering microgeneration technologies
- 15. Socio-environmental impacts of Brazil's first large-scale wind farm
- 16. Perceptions and Preferences Regarding Offshore Wind Power in the United States - The Leading Edge of a New Energy Source for the Americas
- 17. The limits of upstream engagement in an emergent technology: lay perceptions of hydrogen energy technologies
- 18. Public engagement with wind-hydrogen energy technology: a comparative study
- 19. Symbolic interpretations of wave energy in the UK: surfers' perspectives
- 20. Heat and light: understanding bioenergy siting controversy
- 21. From the Material to the Imagined: Public Engagement with Low Carbon Technologies in a Nuclear Community