relation: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4025/
title: The role of a civic initiative in transforming how conflict is handled in energy planning participation: The case of JongRES
creator: Olsman, Christine
description: The planning field is full of conflicts and it is a planners job to deal with these conflicts. In specific, conflict is omnipresent in the energy landscape. These conflicts pose a significant challenge for the energy transition. Hence planners and policymakers have started to put a greater emphasis on participation. However, in practice, the reason for participation is often to avoid conflict in the implementation stages of policies as well as to increase support and acceptance of a policy. Next to all the conflict, new civic initiatives are emerging in the energy landscape. These emerge because they feel their interest are not represented in the current planning processes. This research focuses on the emerging civic initiative of JongRES. An initiative that aims to represent youth in the Dutch Regional Energy Strategies. Civic initiatives operate in the informal world, but for JongRES to reach its goal they need to integrate with the formal world. Both worlds have their own characteristics that affect the relationship between governmental institutions and civic initiatives. Since conflict is omnipresent in energy planning the aim of this research is to deepen the understanding of how a civic initiative can transform how conflict is being handled within the participatory institutions of energy planning.  This study found that the combination of structural (formal) and interpersonal (formal)  aspects affects the transition of conflict handling in energy planning.
date: 2022
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4025/1/C_Olsman_Final1.pdf
identifier:   Olsman, Christine  (2022) The role of a civic initiative in transforming how conflict is handled in energy planning participation: The case of JongRES.  Master thesis.