An den Grenzen der Bürgerbeteiligung: Informelle dialogorientierte Bürgerbeteiligung im Netzausbau der Energiewende

“... Inconceivable, Unrealistic and Inhumane”. Internet Communication on the Flood Disaster in West Germany of July 2021 between Conspiracy Theories and Moralization—A Neopragmatic Explorative Study

“…This ranges from the non-recognition of the normality of conflicts, to the moral pathologization of the other conflict party, to a barely existing consensus on what is recognized as 'true' (even if only 'viable') and how fundamentally societal conflicts should be negotiated. Thus, there is also a lack of an arena for negotiating the underlying conflict over questions of how to deal with the consequences of climate change that do justice to the politically aroused hopes for participation in the design for mitigation and adaptation in relation to climate change, against the background of balancing constraints on current individual lifestyles against generalized expectations of preserving life chances for future generations [121,124,125]. In this respect, the discussion forums for reporting on current events (in this case a flood disaster) are merely an outlet for releasing individual or conflict group-specific moral overpressure, with no or minimal chance of (political) effectiveness.…”

Landscape Conflicts—A Theoretical Approach Based on the Three Worlds Theory of Karl Popper and the Conflict Theory of Ralf Dahrendorf, Illustrated by the Example of the Energy System Transformation in Germany

“…This can also be interpreted as an indicator As a result of the widespread impression that one's own ideas on Landscape 2a, 3a', 3b, and 2 cannot be heard, either in relation to Landscapes 3c and 2c' or in the political-administrative system, the protest against the changes in Landscape 1 is often transformed into an opposition to liberal democracy, while populist interpretations of the world are updated [137][138][139], which in turn is connected with a further (political) polarization of society. This can also be interpreted as an indicator for the high degree of intensity of landscape conflicts around the energy system transformation and illustrates the necessity of its rational regulation [140][141][142][143].…”

“…The suppression of landscape conflicts would mean a disregard for landscape needs, interpretations, and evaluations of the citizens, which would be enforced by mechanisms of domination and could ultimately be broken up by eruptive social events alone. In this respect, in a democratically constituted society the way of settling landscape conflicts seems to be the appropriate one (see also [140,141,[144][145][146][147][148]).…”

Energiewende und Megatrends

“…Studien zu einschlägigen Verfahren zeigen, dass es häufig zu Problemen zwischen Fachverwaltungen/Vorhabenträgern und der Bevölkerung kommt, weil unterschiedliche Rationalitäten und Erwartungshaltungen vorliegen und es an einer gemeinsamen Sprache mangelt (vgl. Bauer 2015;Kamlage et al 2018; Schweizer/Bovet 2016). Eine flächendeckende Lösung konnte bislang nicht gefunden werden, da die effektive Adressierung der beschriebenen Problemlagen Änderungen bei der politischen Steuerung sowie von Zuständigkeiten erfordern würde.…”