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

A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures : Going beyond green growth and sustainability / by Susana Batel & David Rudolph. - xix, 262 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

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
Chapter 10. 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.

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 social acceptance of renewable energy and associated infrastructures.

9783030736989 (hardback)


Clean energy --Social aspects.
Environmental geography.
Environmental policy.
Geography.
Sociology.

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