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Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon electricity or heat. But this is frequently leading to controversy, as energy and planning policies are revised to support new energy sources or technologies (e.g. offshore wind, tidal, bioenergy or hydrogen energy) and communities face the prospect of unfamiliar, often large-scale energy technologies being sited near to their homes. Policy makers in many countries face tensions between 'streamlining' pl... MORE

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Figures, Tables and Boxes	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Acronyms	p. xvii
Public Engagement with Renewable Energy: Introduction	p. xxi
Conceptual approaches
Symmetries, expectations, dynamics and contexts: A framework for understanding public engagement with renewable energy projects	p. 1
'Planning and persuasion': Public engagement in renewable energy decision-making	p. 15
Beyond consensus? Agonism, republicanism and a low carbon future	p. 29
Public roles and socio-technical configurations: Diversity in renewable energy deployment in the UK and its implications	p. 43
From backyards to places: Public engagement and the emplacement of renewable energy technologies	p. 57
Empirical studies of public engagement
Stakeholder and media representations of public engagement
Discourses on the implementation of wind power: Stakeholder views on public engagement	p. 75
Governing the reconfiguration of energy in Greater London: Practical public engagement as 'delivery'	p. 89
Envisioning public engagement with renewable energy: An empirical analysis of images within the UK national press 2006/2007	p. 101
Nimbyism and community consultation in electricity transmission network planning	p. 115
Case studies of public beliefs and responses:
Future energy scenarios
Turning the heat on: Public engagement in Australia's energy future	p. 131
Solor energy and microgeneration
Shaping people's engagement with microgeneration technology: The case of solar photovoltaics in UK homes	p. 149
Siting solar power in Arizona: A public value failure?	p. 167
Socio-environmental research on energy sustainable communities: Participation experiences of two decades	p. 187
Yes in my back yard: UK householders pioneering microgeneration technologies	p. 203
Wind energy
Socio-environmental impacts of Brazil's first large-scale wind farm	p. 219
Perceptions and preferences regarding offshore wind power in the United States: The leading edge of a new energy source for the Americas	p. 233
Hydrogen energy
The limits of upstream engagement in an emergent technology: Lay perceptions of hydrogen energy technologies	p. 245
Public engagement with wind-hydrogen technology: A comparative study	p. 261
Marine energy
Symbolic interpretations of wave energy in the UK: Surfers' perspectives	p. 275
Bioenergy
Heat and light: Understanding bioenergy siting controversy	p. 289
Nuclear and renewable energy
From the material to the imagined: Public engagement with low carbon technologies in a nuclear community	p. 301
Conclusions	p. 317
Index	p. 323
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Patrick Devine-Wright researches social and psychological aspects of new energy infrastructure such as wind farms, drawing on the concepts of place attachment and place identity to explain 'NIMBY' responses. He holds a chair in Human Geography at the University of Exeter, UK.

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