Harnessing place attachment for local climate mitigation? Hypothesising connections between broadening representations of place and readiness for change
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Harnessing place attachment for local climate mitigation? Hypothesising connections between broadening representations of place and readiness for change. / Upham, Paul; Johansen, Katinka; Bögel, Paula Maria et al.
In: Local Environment, Vol. 23, No. 9, 02.09.2018, p. 912-919.Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Research
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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 -