Marine renewables and coastal communities—Experiences from the offshore oil industry in the 1970s and their relevance to marine renewables in the 2010s

Johnson, Kate R.; Kerr, Sandy; Side, Jonathan Charles

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2012.08.004

Cited by 31 publications

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“…The data also suggested polarization over this time period: opponents to offshore wind became stronger opponents, while supporters also ‘hardened’ their positions. Experiences with the offshore oil industry in terms of community participation have also been argued to potentially offer a blueprint that could be repeated with ORE in some places, specifically in terms of granting communities near ORE development areas more control and a share of the profits . Furthermore, other studies have, tangentially, commented on the wider energy policy context in shaping public responses to ORE. One contingent valuation study concluded that offshore wind in France may be more acceptable when accompanied by a coherent environmental policy, while a survey study found that a proposed ORE development in the United States would have been more acceptable if it was the first of many such proposals .…”

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Public engagement with offshore renewable energy: a critical review

Wiersma

Devine‐Wright

2014

WIREs Climate Change

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Offshore renewable energy, including offshore wind, tidal and wave energy, has sometimes been represented as opposition‐free alternatives to controversial technologies such as onshore wind turbines, and has received increasing attention from social scientists in recent years. A fragmented literature has emerged investigating public engagement with these technologies and the determinants of public acceptance, comprising 59 key studies—the majority investigating offshore wind energy (59%). This literature review argues that while the ways in which public actors engage with offshore renewable energy are to some extent similar to onshore energy infrastructure, there are also important differences. These include the generally lower levels of public knowledge about the technologies, a changing role for visual impacts, a fundamentally different, marine, spatial context, and different sets of stakeholders in different decision‐making arenas. There is a need to explore as yet unasked and unanswered questions—going beyond ‘established’ variables identified in the onshore wind‐based ‘beyond NIMBY’ literature—especially regarding the role of the marine location of these technologies, and the cross‐technology and cross‐disciplinary applicability of findings. In order to more fully understand public responses to energy infrastructures, future research needs to move beyond case studies of onshore wind developments, adopting more diverse and ambitious research designs and methodologies. This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Behavior Change and Responses

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Section: Review Of Studies To Datementioning

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Public engagement with offshore renewable energy: a critical review

Wiersma

Devine‐Wright

2014

WIREs Climate Change

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“…Landowners can generally use their land as they wish, with the government impinging on these private rights only where necessary to preserve legal order and protect the public interest (Johnson et al 2013). At sea, States claim sovereign jurisdiction over their coastal waters, and private ownership of marine spaces remains rare.…”

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Shaping Blue Growth: Social Sciences at the Nexus Between Marine Renewables and Energy Policy

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Watts²,

Brennan³

et al. 2018

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The development of the Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) industry is part of the EC Blue Growth Strategy. It brings together a range of relationships across people, sea, and energy, from developers to local communities and policymakers. This calls for diverse approaches, moving beyond an oppositional mindset to one that can establish an inclusive community around MRE development. Ownership of the marine environment is a legal issue, but MRE devices operate within a cultural and emotional

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“…Ocean Energy Europe, an industry association, has concurrently convened a Technology and Innovation Platform for Ocean Energy, the primary focus of which is to foster a broad consensus on priorities for technological innovation. The UK, and Scotland in particular, finds itself at the vanguard of this new industry, as ocean energy enjoys a combi-nation of political support, significant resources and technical expertise [8,9]. Marine macroalgae is also a potential biomass for biofuel production because of their higher productivity rates than terrestrial biomass such as corn and switch grass [10].…”

Section: Marine-based Blue Energymentioning

confidence: 99%