Harnessing place attachment for local climate mitigation? Hypothesising connections between broadening representations of place and readiness for change

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Public engagement in local environmental planning and decision-making is often advocated on various grounds, both instrumental and normative. Yet in developed countries in the context of renewable energy infrastructure deployment, place attachment, place identity and place-protective action continue to be implicated in public objection. We set out an interdisciplinary change readiness hypothesis of specifically how local participatory scenario or visioning processes that include climate mitigation measures may support the mobilisation of place attachment for climate mitigation, including renewable energy deployment. We hypothesise that local visioning may support movement towards change readiness by helping to anchor unfamiliar social representations of low carbon energy infrastructure and new patterns of urban form in existing, more positive representations of localities and associated attachments. To this end, seeking ways to modify threat perceptions relating to climate change and renewable energy infrastructure is advocated as a key direction for study.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftLocal Environment
Jahrgang23
Ausgabenummer9
Seiten (von - bis)912-919
Anzahl der Seiten8
ISSN1354-9839
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 02.09.2018

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  1. Rainer Paffrath

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