Social representations of intermittency and the shaping of public support for wind energy in the UK
Social representations of intermittency and the shaping of public support for wind energy in the UK
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英国间歇性的社会表征和公众对风能支持的形成
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2006
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H. Devine
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P. Devine‐Wright;H. Devine
考虑到可再生能源的潜在影响，英国可再生能源政策的实用性受到专家机构的质疑。与此同时，风能的发展在地方上引起了争议，在地方、区域和国家各级出现了公民运动团体。这项研究整合了这些链，探索如何传递给公众的宣传活动团体的一部分，他们的论点反对或赞成，风能，使用社会表征理论。定性分析进行了网络材料从十组在不同层次的英国各地。结果表明，怀疑论者使用不可预测性和不可控性的概念以及工作而不是闲置的概念来熟悉间歇性;而支持者则提到了可变性和波动性。尽管观点两极分化，但具体的主题表明，不稳定性的社会表征有一个共同的基本结构，集中在与电网的兼容性，对天气的看法，风能的独特性以及事实对神话的美德。结果的影响进行了讨论公众的看法和英国能源政策的合法性的塑造。
The practicality of UK renewable energy policy, given the potential impacts of intermittency, has been contested by expert institutions. At the same time, wind energy developments have engendered local controversy and civic campaign groups have emerged at local, regional and national levels. This research integrates these strands in exploring how intermittency is communicated to the public by campaign groups as part of their arguments against or in favour, of wind energy, using social representations theory. Qualitative analysis was conducted on the web material from ten groups operating at different levels across the UK. The results indicated that sceptics made intermittency familiar using concepts of unpredictability and uncontrollability, as well as notions of work over idleness; while supporters referred to variability and fluctuation. Specific themata suggest, despite polarised views, a common underlying structure to social representations of intermittency, centring on compatibility with the grid, views of the weather, the distinctiveness of wind energy and the virtue of facts over myths. The implications of the results are discussed in relation to the shaping of public perceptions and the legitimacy of UK energy policy.