Carbon reduction, 'the public' and renewable energy: engaging with socio-technical configurations.

By G. Walker, Noel Cass. 2007

371 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Pollution, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/09706b95eb99bd3d63ed5d9a3b18899581443661

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. P. Devine‐Wright
2. Colin Nolden
3. G. Bridge
4. Eleftheria Vasileiadou
5. Emily Creamer
6. A. Berka
7. G. Dóci
8. Stefan Bouzarovski

In Pollution

1. Stefan Bouzarovski
2. Colin Nolden
3. G. Bridge
4. Emily Creamer
5. A. Berka
6. G. Dóci
7. Eleftheria Vasileiadou
8. G. Walker

In Sociology and Political Science

1. P. Devine‐Wright
2. G. Bridge
3. Colin Nolden
4. Stefan Bouzarovski
5. Eleftheria Vasileiadou
6. Emily Creamer
7. A. Berka
8. G. Dóci

Citations in the corpus

• Geographies of energy transition: Space, place and the low-carbon economy (2013, background): “There are, however, ‘‘profound social and geographical implications embedded within emerging patterns of renewable energy utilisation’’ that a focus on scaling is beginning to tease out (Walker and Cass, 2007: 458).”
• Good Neighbours, Public Relations and Bribes: The Politics and Perceptions of Community Benefit Provision in Renewable Energy Development in the UK (2010, background): “We do not include in our analysis the distinct community mode of implementation of RET (Walker & Cass, 2007) in which community-based processes and ownership arrangement patterns are deployed, as these are—to some degree—more established and we have examined UK experience of such initiatives in…”
• Local Governments Supporting Local Energy Initiatives: Lessons from the Best Practices of Saerbeck (Germany) and Lochem (The Netherlands) (2015, background): “This differentiates LEIs from other bottom-up initiatives that address energy-related problems since members can submerge themselves into a project as participants [32–35].”
• "Let's do it ourselves" : individual motivations for investing in renewables at community level (2015, background): “Especially in the case of renewable energy communities, it has been suggested that ideological reasons, such as improving the neighborhood’s conditions, serving as good example for others and supporting and strengthening the local community are among the most important reasons for participation [22,”
• Governing community energy: feed-in tariffs and the development of community wind energy schemes in the United Kingdom and Germany (2013, background): “Examples of papers with specific reference to the FiT highlight increasing societal participation (Walker and Cass, 2007) and document the growth in the UK′s CE sector following its introduction (Willis andWillis, 2012).”
• Taking stock of the local impacts of community owned renewable energy: A review and research agenda (2018, background): “There is growing debate over the role of different ownership models in the renewable energy (RE) transition and the merits and disadvantages of far-reaching civic engagement with energy systems [1-4].”