Frames, fantasies, and culture: Applying and comparing different methodologies for identifying energy imaginaries in American policy discourse

Bollman, Melissa

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2021.102380

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“…Beyond support or opposition based on type of technology or energy infrastructure, there are a wide variety of project characteristics that may in uence public preferences. In public discourse, large-scale energy projects are routinely framed in ways that emphasize speci c risks or bene ts to local communities, and support or opposition to projects is often tied to narratives about these risks and bene ts (Bjärstig et al, 2022;Bollman, 2022). At the individual level, narratives help individuals make sense of uncertainty, in uence cognition, and support or challenge existing power relations and policy outcomes (Constantino & Weber, 2021).…”

Section: Characteristics Of Large-scale Energy Projectsmentioning

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Public and Local Policymaker Preferences for Large-Scale Energy Project Characteristics

Caggiano,

Constantino,

Greig

et al. 2024

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Rapidly building utility-scale energy infrastructure requires not only public support, but also political will across levels of government. This research explores determinants of opposition and support for large-scale energy projects among residents and local elected officials in Pennsylvania—a key transition state due its high solar potential, and where siting authority rests at the local level. This work extends prior research by using a conjoint to compare many project characteristics simultaneously, expanding the set of characteristics typically considered, sampling both the public and elected officials in a key transition state, and assessing the accuracy of public officials’ perceptions of their constituents. Using a conjoint experiment, we assess support for different characteristics of energy projects among a demographically representative sample of residents (n = 894) and a sample of local elected officials (n = 206). Key findings include that creation of permanent, union-wage jobs and cooperative community ownership increases support for energy projects and that solar projects are preferred over wind, nuclear, and natural gas power plants with carbon capture and storage. Support among both the public and local elected officials is lower when projects are owned by foreign companies. Strikingly, we find limited partisan differences in preferences for large scale renewable energy project characteristics, suggesting a promising path towards building bipartisan support for such projects. We also find, however, that local elected officials misperceive the preferences of their constituents, underestimating support for renewable energy and the importance of job creation. Given the role of local elected officials as key decision-makers regarding energy infrastructure development, their preferences and how they perceive their constituents’ preferences may dictate what types of energy projects are approved and what benefits they deliver to local communities.

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Section: Characteristics Of Large-scale Energy Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public and Local Policymaker Preferences for Large-Scale Energy Project Characteristics

Caggiano,

Constantino,

Greig

et al. 2024

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“… (4) Generating Knowledge and Tools for Just Transitions Finally, the collection does important work to advance a more just renewable transition. Contributions do so in political ecology's more critical vein—particularly in developing a sharper analysis of the terrain of political power in renewable energy development, rising areas of contention and alternative visions of renewable transition emerging in the field (Bollman, 2022; Hudlet-Vazquez et al, 2022). Some also make creative interventions in political ecology's more engaged and praxis-oriented mode, working with movement partners to hone engaged approaches and toolkits.…”

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New political ecologies of renewable energy

Knuth

Behrsin

Levenda

et al. 2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The critique of fossil fuel regimes has been a foundational concern for the field of political ecology, in its drives to expose the injustices and harms of energy extractivism and its early warnings of the climate crisis. However, it is increasingly evident that renewable energy sources and their infrastructures will carry their own costs and trade-offs, and that critique, resistance and alternative movement-building are needed to forge a truly just renewable energy transition. This theme issue underlines the many ways in which political ecology is well-positioned to lead critical and engaged scholarship in support of energy/climate justice. In this introduction and survey, we draw on new research collected here to reflect on political ecology's distinctive analytical capacities and forms of praxis for this task. We argue that the collection advances political ecology's intellectual and political purchase on renewable transition in several crucial ways. These include (1) Theorizing Renewables-Driven Land Transformations, (2) Advancing Industrial Political Ecologies of Renewables, (3) Locating Power within Technical and Artifactual Politics and (4) Generating Knowledge and Tools for Just Transitions. We conclude with reflections on further pressing concerns for the field: for example, rising debates over scale, ownership and accountability models within renewable energy justice and democracy movements and critical conversations growing around renewable energy's own extraction geographies and diverse forms of racialization.

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Discursive trends and their socio-ecological implications in Senegal's renewable energy turn

Mara

2023

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition

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Frames, fantasies, and culture: Applying and comparing different methodologies for identifying energy imaginaries in American policy discourse

Cited by 4 publications

References 45 publications

Public and Local Policymaker Preferences for Large-Scale Energy Project Characteristics

Public and Local Policymaker Preferences for Large-Scale Energy Project Characteristics

New political ecologies of renewable energy

Discursive trends and their socio-ecological implications in Senegal's renewable energy turn

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