Cool Rationalities and Hot Air: A Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Debates on Renewable Energy
Cool Rationalities and Hot Air: A Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Debates on Renewable Energy
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冷静的理性和空洞的言论：理解可再生能源辩论的修辞方法
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Clive Robinson
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作者：
J. Barry;G. Ellis;Clive Robinson
可再生能源大规模发展的一个关键障碍是，当风能从抽象支持转向地方实施时，公众对风能的接受度不能被认为是理所当然的。我们以反对北爱尔兰海上风电场选址的案例研究为基础，对来自政府、媒体、支持和反对风能来源的一系列代表性文件进行了修辞分析，识别并解释了一些反对和支持的话语。分析表明，向可再生能源经济转型的关键问题与技术本身关系不大。了解支持和反对风能话语的不同细微差别，凸显了思考看待这些冲突的新方法的重要性。其中包括采用冲突解决方法和上游公众参与决策过程，以及假设反对是基于无知（可以通过信息解决）或邻避思维（可以通过克服搭便车的道德争论来解决）的适得其反的策略。
A key obstacle to the wide-scale development of renewable energy is that public acceptability of wind energy cannot be taken for granted when wind energy moves from abstract support to local implementation. Drawing on a case study of opposition to the siting of a proposed off-shore wind farm in Northern Ireland, we offer a rhetorical analysis of a series of representative documents drawn from government, media, pro- and anti-wind energy sources, which identifies and interprets a number of discourses of objection and support. The analysis indicates that the key issue in terms of the transition to a renewable energy economy has little to do with the technology itself. Understanding the different nuances of pro- and anti-wind energy discourses highlights the importance of thinking about new ways of looking at these conflicts. These include adopting a conflict resolution approach and upstreaming public involvement in the decision-making process and also the counter-productive strategy of assuming that objection is based on ignorance (which can be solved by information) or NIMBY thinking (which can be solved by moral arguments about overcoming free riders).