eprintid: 3622
rev_number: 5
eprint_status: archive
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dir: disk0/00/00/36/22
datestamp: 2021-07-30 08:09:44
lastmod: 2021-07-30 08:09:44
status_changed: 2021-07-30 08:09:44
type: thesis
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sword_depositor: 1
creators_name: Schee, Ewout van der
creators_id: S2706202
creators_email: ewout96@gmail.com
title: Mitigating opposition against solar parks - A Q methodological view into perceptions of involved stakeholders
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
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.
date: 2021
pages: 73
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: EIP
tutors_name: Turhan, E.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Planologie
tutors_email: e.turhan@rug.nl
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keywords_local: Solar park
keywords_local: Opposition
keywords_local: Acceptance
keywords_local: Resistance
keywords_local: Shared ownership
keywords_local: Renewable energy
keywords_local: Financial benefits
keywords_local: Governmental influence
keywords_local: Q methodology
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2021-07-29
citation:   Schee, Ewout van der  (2021) Mitigating opposition against solar parks - A Q methodological view into perceptions of involved stakeholders.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3622/1/MSc_Thesis_Evanderschee_S2706202.pdf