Discourse, Power, and Energy Conflicts: Understanding Welsh Renewable Energy Planning Policy
Discourse, Power, and Energy Conflicts: Understanding Welsh Renewable Energy Planning Policy
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话语、权力和能源冲突：了解威尔士可再生能源规划政策
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10.1068/c08100h
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2009
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R. Stevenson
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R. Stevenson
威尔士议会于2005年以关于可再生能源的技术咨询说明8（TAN 8）的形式更新了其可再生能源规划政策。决策过程符合大会对参与性和利益攸关方政策主导的发展的承诺。我探索通过权力，话语和政策的合理性，确定四个主要的合理性TAN 8政策内的福柯的理解决策过程：空间规划，能源目标，对大规模风力发电的依赖，以及传统的规划范式可以解决可再生能源的深层次冲突的理由。我探讨了这些理性是如何出现的，并通过TAN 8利益相关者群体中出现的强大话语联盟得到加强。因此，我认为，“共识”不一定是参与式决策的目标，参与过程不应依赖于提供“合理的”规划政策，导致可持续发展。相反，我们必须接受多元化的概念，理解决策过程中发挥作用的话语权。
The Welsh Assembly updated their planning policy for renewables in the form of Technical Advice Note 8 (TAN 8) on renewable energy in 2005. The policy-making process was in line with the Assembly's commitment to participative and stakeholder policy-led development. I explore the policymaking process through a Foucauldian understanding of power, discourses, and policy rationalities, identifing four primary rationalities within the TAN 8 policy: spatial planning, energy targets, reliance on large-scale wind power, and the rationale that the traditional planning paradigm can resolve deep-seated conflicts over renewable energy. I explore how these rationalities emerged and were reinforced through the powerful discourse coalitions that emerged within the TAN 8 stakeholder group. As a result, I suggest that ‘consensus' should not necessarily be the aim of participative policy making and that the participatory process should not be relied upon to deliver ‘rational’ planning policies, leading to sustainable development. Instead, we must embrace the notion of pluralism with an understanding of the discursive powers at work within the policy-making process.