Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Projects

Edited by Sébastien Bourdin, Professor of Economic Geography and Environmental Management, IESEG School of Management, France

‘The Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Projects is crucial for a successful low-carbon transition. While social acceptance is often treated as a matter of personal attitudes, this book aims for a better understanding of the underlying social processes and preconditions for the acceptance and legitimacy of renewable energy projects. This book is a timely and sought-after contribution to a deeper understanding of the social acceptance of renewable energy projects, a contribution which links this concept to the social dynamics of the energy transition, its political urgency, contestedness and entanglement with the transformation of our social and political systems.’

• ContentsList of contributors viiIntroduction to The Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Projects xiiSébastien BourdinPART I UNDERSTANDING THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIALACCEPTANCE: VALUES, NORMS, AND IMAGINARIES1 Public perception dynamics in renewable energy: theoreticalframework and comparative insight 2John A. Paravantis, Niκoletta Kontoulis, and Giouli Mihalakakou2 Social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: amultidisciplinary approach. The role of contextual andpsychological factors in promoting justice and equity 29Marco Modica and Andrea Rampa3 The social acceptance of wind energy projects 50Alessandra Motz4 Mapping diverse stakeholder imaginaries: using ParticipatoryGIS to capture the critical-spatial dimensions of socialacceptance 77Adam Peacock and Patrick Devine-WrightPART II THE LEVERS OF SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE:PARTICIPATION, GOVERNANCE, AND JUSTICE5 Arnstein’s ladder of citizen participation revisited: 50 years on,what have we learned? 104Katinka Johansen and Paul Upham6 Objects of Value framework for identifying conditioning factorsfor community acceptance in renewable energy development 122Cristián Escobar-Avaria, Katherinne Silva-Urrutia, and Rodrigo Fuster7 From the power plant to the consumers: the rise of energycommunities 141Louis Lasnon8 Emerging social norms and etiquette around the use of publicEV chargers 163Lora Denkovic-Kraljev and Christopher R. Jones9 Establishing acceptability: wind energy and community in theenergy transition 180Breffní LennonPART III CONTROVERSIES, RESISTANCE, ANDTERRITORIAL ANCHORING10 Anticipating the dynamics of domestic hydrogen acceptance:empirical evidence from the UK 196Joel A. Gordon and Nazmiye Balta-Ozkan11 Territorial value sharing of renewable energies: criticalanalysis of the French mechanism introduced by the 2023Law on Accelerating the Production of Renewable Energies 230Louis de Fontenelle12 Social acceptability of geothermal drilling: an empiricalinvestigation 250John A. Paravantis, Niκoletta Kontoulis, and Vasileios Papakostas13 Contentious narratives and innovative action in the heattransition: insights from municipalities in Brandenburg 276Germán Bersalli, Yves Perillard, and Franziska Mey14 The ontological politics of public acceptance surveys:performing NIMBY and the local opposition despite publicacceptance paradox 298Jacob A. E. Nielsen15 Measuring the social acceptability of renewable energyprojects: an overview 313Alice Friser, Corinne Gendron, and Stéphanie YatesIndex 330