TY - JOUR

T1 - Harnessing place attachment for local climate mitigation?

T2 - Hypothesising connections between broadening representations of place and readiness for change

AU - Upham, Paul

AU - Johansen, Katinka

AU - Bögel, Paula Maria

AU - Axon, Stephen

AU - Garard, Jennifer

AU - Carney, Sebastian

PY - 2018/9/2

Y1 - 2018/9/2

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - engagement

KW - land use planning

KW - place attachment

KW - Public objection

KW - visioning

KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication

KW - Sustainability Science

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85048785271&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/13549839.2018.1488824

DO - 10.1080/13549839.2018.1488824

M3 - Comments / Debate / Reports

AN - SCOPUS:85048785271

VL - 23

SP - 912

EP - 919

JO - Local Environment

JF - Local Environment

SN - 1354-9839

IS - 9

ER -