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A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructuresGetting Used to It, But …? Rethinking the Elusive U-Curve of Acceptance and Post-Construction Assumptions

A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures: Getting Used to... [A frequent rationale of planning authorities and developers regarding local resistance to renewable energy facilities carries the assumption of people getting used to changes over time. This invokes a temporal dimension to the resolution of planning conflicts through processes of familiarisation and adaptation, which is also reflected in the so-called U-shaped curve indicating that local acceptance drops during the consenting process and increases again after deployment. However, in this explorative chapter, we caution against simplistic and short-sighted presumptions of post-construction acceptance. In doing so, we juxtapose notions of how the future is conceived and acted on in order to argue for less preemptive measures for gaining local acceptance and more locally beneficial renewable energy projects based on notions borrowed from prefigurative politics and radical planning.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructuresGetting Used to It, But …? Rethinking the Elusive U-Curve of Acceptance and Post-Construction Assumptions

Editors: Batel, Susana; Rudolph, David
Rudolph, David; Clausen, Laura Tolnov
Springer Journals — Aug 26, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-73698-9
Pages
63 –81
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-73699-6_4
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Abstract

[A frequent rationale of planning authorities and developers regarding local resistance to renewable energy facilities carries the assumption of people getting used to changes over time. This invokes a temporal dimension to the resolution of planning conflicts through processes of familiarisation and adaptation, which is also reflected in the so-called U-shaped curve indicating that local acceptance drops during the consenting process and increases again after deployment. However, in this explorative chapter, we caution against simplistic and short-sighted presumptions of post-construction acceptance. In doing so, we juxtapose notions of how the future is conceived and acted on in order to argue for less preemptive measures for gaining local acceptance and more locally beneficial renewable energy projects based on notions borrowed from prefigurative politics and radical planning.]

Published: Aug 26, 2021

Keywords: Acceptance; Time; Post-construction; U-shaped curve; Prefigurative politics; Radical planning

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