Schee, Ewout van der (2021) Mitigating opposition against solar parks - A Q methodological view into perceptions of involved stakeholders. Master thesis.
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Abstract
Community resistance to renewable energy projects is a much-encountered problem in planning practice. With the effects of climate change underlining the importance of a fast transition from fossil to renewable resources as a means to generate electricity, opposition against those projects can cause this transition to move too slowly. Cost overruns, project cancellations and time delays are not uncommon effects of resistance against renewable energy projects. Mitigating opposition during the realisation of such a project itself has been found to be an aspect that is difficult to manage. Community Energy and Energy Justice are two well-known concepts utilised to prevent occurrences of opposition against these types of projects altogether. To understand the effects of Community Energy and Energy Justice on the mitigation of opposition, perceptions of people involved in a solar park project in Wanneperveen, the Netherlands, are analysed. Through the application of Q methodological research, viewpoints of people involved in this project with regard to opposition mitigation are exposed. These perceptions show that there exists a hiatus between common knowledge in literature concerning the mitigation of opposition: where academics and policymakers are generally convinced that shared ownership and financial benefits create higher levels of acceptance, this belief is not shared by all people involved in the solar park project. This means that new methods must be explored regarding the way opposition against solar parks, and renewable energy projects in general, is managed.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Environmental & Infrastructure Planning |
| Supervisor: | Turhan, E. |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jul 2021 08:09 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jul 2021 08:09 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3622 |
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