A social network perspective on involvement in community energy initiatives: The role of direct and extended social ties to initiators

Goedkoop, Fleur; Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis; Flache, Andreas

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113260

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“…Several case studies in the literature emphasize the importance of local leadership or community energy champions to facilitate actor engagement, knowledge mobilization, and internalizing RE as a community-directed initiative (Krupa et al, 2015;Rakshit et al, 2018). Local leadership for RE is collaborative, not hierarchical, and focused on building the social capital to enable and sustain RE projects (Goedkoop et al, 2022). In other words, realizing the social value of RE opportunities requires leadership that engages community members, fosters a collaborative approach to shaping a community's energy vision, and ensures integration of community values into RE project planning, implementation, and benefits distribution (Krupa, 2012;MacKay et al, 2021;Rakshit et al, 2019).…”

Section: Building Relationships and Establishing Local Leadershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social value of renewable energy in remote northern Indigenous communities

Lim,

Poelzer,

Noble

2024

JAED

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Renewable energy (RE) is at the forefront of Canada’s strategy to achieve a net-zero electricity grid by 2035. The development of RE projects is also promoted as a means to deliver energy services in rural and remote Indigenous communities across the North. Although RE projects have the potential to contribute to sovereignty, self-sufficiency, and economic reconciliation, the social value of RE to Indigenous communities is often overlooked and poorly understood. This article advances themes for understanding and approaching RE developments to better assess their social value. It does so based on the analysis of lessons from RE research in northern Canada and Alaska. We demonstrate that RE projects can create outcomes that are value generating or value eroding and that such outcomes are often couched in the context of supporting or detracting from self-determination. Techno-human variables, from community vision and capacity to policy environments and local RE ownership, serve to enable or inhibit the realization of value-generating outcomes from RE. Finally, we identify several pathways to creation from RE, including relationships and collaborative leadership, knowledge and skills-development, Indigenous-led policies that decrease energy bureaucracy and manage benefits distribution, and regulations and structures that safeguard ecologies.

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Section: Building Relationships and Establishing Local Leadershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social value of renewable energy in remote northern Indigenous communities

Lim,

Poelzer,

Noble

2024

JAED

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“…When trying to investigate the part of social network in effecting the user's choice on to whether to be a part of communal activity. Discussing about engagement of members is critical part for the success of a communal energy initiative and this leads to main question on how the initiators of a program can reach the community members and stimulate their involvement [10]. By which we are getting to know about the impact of individuals in the network of community.…”

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Social Network Integrated with Information Security

Paila,

Sarma,

Sheeba

2023

Recent Trends in Data Science and Its Applications

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In today's world social networks are a part of our daily life. There are millions of users in the social networking sites using them for connecting with their family, friends and sharing private (or) personal information. Social networks are been trusted for communicating purposes in both personal and professional needs. We are proposing a method to create an environment where individuals can express their ideas and built business over them with the help of community (or) network. Here community refers to a group of individuals who are into the same stream of profession. This could be used for helping each other in improving their ideas and developing their concepts collaboratively. In the current scenario social networks are facing a critical challenge of fake users and unauthorized access of them into the network which is leading to the bleaching of privacy to many users. The data of users is not so secured in these social networks, which can be dealt by the incorporation of security policies which improves the environment. This can improve the engagement of community members in being a part of many activities as it is the key to improve once ideas (or) business. In social network individuals are main aspect of the community, protecting them from fake information and users is also very much important and this is achieved by the implementation of security features and policies into the network.

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A social network approach to community energy initiative participation

Nientimp,

Goedkoop,

Flache

et al. 2024

Energy Efficiency

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This perspective paper argues how a social network approach can contribute to creating a more comprehensive picture of how individual and community characteristics influence participation in community energy initiatives (CEIs). We argue how social network theory and methods for social network analysis can be utilized to better understand participation. Further, we show how this can potentially aid the implementation of interventions aimed at attracting more participants with more diverse socio-demographic backgrounds. Importantly, we argue that the structure of community social networks connecting (potential) participants could importantly influence whether and how individual and community properties affect CEI participation. Our aim is conveying the social network approach to the field of community energy researchers and stakeholders who might not be familiar with it. We discuss empirical evidence on the effect of network characteristics on CEI participation and the connection between research on CEIs and adjacent fields as a foundation for our claims. We also illustrate how a social network approach might help to overcome biased participation and low participation numbers, by providing social scientists with a tool to give empirically grounded advice to CEIs. We conclude by looking at avenues for future research and discuss how the context of CEIs might yield new theoretical insights and hypotheses.

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A social network perspective on involvement in community energy initiatives: The role of direct and extended social ties to initiators

Cited by 9 publications

References 84 publications

Social value of renewable energy in remote northern Indigenous communities

Social value of renewable energy in remote northern Indigenous communities

Social Network Integrated with Information Security

A social network approach to community energy initiative participation

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