Putting Research to Action: Integrating Collaborative Governance and Community-Engaged Research for Community Solar
Putting Research to Action: Integrating Collaborative Governance and Community-Engaged Research for Community Solar
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将研究付诸实践：将社区太阳能的协作治理与社区参与研究相结合
DOI：
10.3390/socsci8010011
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发表时间：
2019
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Chelsea Schelly
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作者：
Emily Prehoda;Richelle L. Winkler;Chelsea Schelly
社区太阳能涉及安装一个太阳能发电系统，该系统建在一个中心位置，成本和收益分配给自愿投资者，他们选择订阅并根据所产生的能源获得信贷。社区太阳能因其增加可再生能源获取和能源治理民主化的潜力而受到关注。本文回顾了美国密歇根州两个农村社区案例研究中的社区参与研究经验，重点关注研究过程中遇到的障碍，而不是研究的实证结果。我们强调我们所经历的困难，以帮助推进一个概念性的论点，将合作治理战略，以提高社区参与的研究，社区能源项目。我们的反思说明了社区参与研究的挑战，这些挑战与确定谁应该被包括在决策过程中，保持参与和避免剥削，建立和沟通最终决策权，并注意研究的产出和成果。我们认为，合作治理策略可以帮助解决这些挑战，因为我们在我们的项目中亲身经历。
Community solar involves the installation of a solar electricity system that is built in one central location with the costs and benefits distributed across voluntary investors who choose to subscribe and receive credits based on the generated energy. Community solar is gaining attention because of its potential to increase access to renewable energy and to democratize energy governance. This paper reflects on community-engaged research experiences in two rural community case studies in Michigan, USA, focusing on obstacles that were experienced during the research process rather than empirical findings from the research. We highlight difficulties we experienced to help advance a conceptual argument about incorporating collaborative governance strategies to improve community-engaged research for community energy projects. Our reflections illustrate challenges in community-engaged research that are associated with identifying who should be included in the decision-making process, sustaining participation and avoiding exploitation, establishing and communicating final decision-making power, and giving attention to outputs and outcomes of the research. We argue that collaborative governance strategies can help to address these challenges, as we experienced firsthand in our project.