From riches to rags: Biofuels, media discourses, and resistance to sustainable energy technologies

Public attitudes towards renewable energy technologies in Norway. The role of party preferences

“…Traditional social acceptance studies that query the general public on attitudes or support have tended to show widespread support for green energy technologies in the Europe (Sengers et al 2010;Eurobarometer, 2008), demonstrating that the public generally views renewable energy very favourably. Interestingly enough, most literature on the public perception of renewable energy technologies focuses on public resistance (Devine-Wright 2008a) 2 especially when focusing on the site-specific nature of different renewables that often invites conflict with existing or planned land uses.…”

Curb Your Enthusiasm: On Media Communication of Bioenergy and the Role of the News Media in Technology Diffusion

“…We have also seen that local and regional newspapers are sensible not only to a national context, but also to local circumstances (Sengers, et al, 2010;Stephens, et al, 2009;Upreti & van der Horst, 2004). This should be kept in mind while studying the reporting of regional newspapers.…”

“…Based on published research (e.g Sengers, et al, 2010;Upreti & van der Horst, 2004;Wüstenhagen, et al, 2007), I expected the coverage to gravitate around controversy. This, I assumed, would lead the newspapers to take a watchdog role in relation to bioenergy, positioning their coverage as protecting the public from authorities and industry.…”

“…Past research, however, suggests that that this type of coverage has been quite widespread in relation to renewable energy technologies (cf. Sengers, et al, 2010;Upreti & van der Horst, 2004;Wüstenhagen, et al, 2007).…”

Contending Expertise: An Interpretive Approach to (Re)conceiving Wind Power's ‘Planning Problem’

“…While media discourses have been explored in relation to energy debates (see for example, Sengers et al, 2010), in this paper we focus instead on the media as a key national arena for argumentation and mobilising competing stakeholder discourses. In this approach, we recognise that the media is not a neutral arbitrator, but pursues its own interests and A key rationale for drawing on these two national televised debates is the absence of both local and national democratic arenas that have enabled inclusive dialogue on the deplo e t of i d e e g , i di ati e of e e tl i t odu ed fast t a k pla i g legislatio that has increasingly rescaled decision-making from local government to a national planning od a d a edefi itio of the pu li i te est i pla i g to a ds the atio al i te est .…”