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A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures

Going beyond green growth and sustainability

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Editors:
  1. Susana Batel

    1. Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Cis-IUL, Lisboa, Portugal

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  2. David Rudolph

    1. Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark

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  • Provides a critical approach to research on the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures and energy transitions
  • Brings together authors from different disciplinary backgrounds within the social sciences to discuss a unique critical approach
  • Offers academics, students and practitioners a comprehensive perspective of what it means to be critical when inquiring into the social acceptance of renewable energy and associated infrastructures

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Critical Approach to the Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Infrastructures

      • Susana Batel, David Rudolph
      Pages 3-19

  3. Overcoming Individualism and Socio-Cognitive Reductionism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Strategies for Integrating Quantitative Methods into Critical Social Acceptance Research

      • Kate Sherren, Ellen Chappell, John Parkins
      Pages 23-42

    3. Using a Critical Approach to Unpack the Visual-Spatial Impacts of Energy Infrastructures

      • Susana Batel, Patrick Devine-Wright
      Pages 43-60

  4. Repoliticisations—Recognising and Articulating Power Relations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Getting Used to It, But …? Rethinking the Elusive U-Curve of Acceptance and Post-Construction Assumptions

      • David Rudolph, Laura Tolnov Clausen
      Pages 63-81

    3. Does Renewable Energy Exist? Fossil Fuel+ Technologies and the Search for Renewable Energy

      • Alexander Dunlap
      Pages 83-102

  6. Interventions—Praxis and Political Engagement with Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Social Acceptance: Beyond Criticism and Critical, a Call for Experimental Ontology

      • Alain Nadaï, Olivier Labussière
      Pages 143-160

    3. How to Assess What Society Wants? The Need for a Renewed Social Conflict Research Agenda

      • Eefje Cuppen, Udo Pesch
      Pages 161-178

  7. Overcoming Localism and Spatial Determinism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Provincial Polyphasia: Community Energy Generation and the Politics of Sustainability Transition in Alberta, Canada

      • Mike Gismondi, Lorelei Hanson
      Pages 181-198

    3. People-Place Bonds, Rhetorical Meaning-Making and “Doing Acceptance” to a Renewable Energy Infrastructure: Postcolonial Insights from the Global South

      • Rafaella Lenoir-Improta, Andrés Di Masso
      Pages 199-215

    4. Energy Justice and Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Projects in the Global South

      • Dan van der Horst, Rebecca Grant, Adolfo Mejía Montero, Aiste Garneviciene
      Pages 217-234

  8. Discussion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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About this book

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.

Reviews

“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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Cis-IUL, Lisboa, Portugal

    Susana Batel

  • Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark

    David Rudolph

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures

  • Book Subtitle: Going beyond green growth and sustainability

  • Editors: Susana Batel, David Rudolph

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73699-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73698-9Published: 26 August 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73701-6Published: 27 August 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73699-6Published: 25 August 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 262

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Environmental Geography, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Geography, general

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