A personas-based approach to deliberating local decarbonisation scenarios: Findings and methodological insights
A personas-based approach to deliberating local decarbonisation scenarios: Findings and methodological insights
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DOI：
10.1016/j.erss.2021.102455
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发表时间：
2021-12-28
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6.7
通讯作者：
Pidgeon, Nick
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作者：
Cherry, Catherine;Thomas, Gareth;Pidgeon, Nick
由于公众深深地嵌入能源系统的核心，任何过渡都必须由地方一级社会可接受/可取的东西来决定，同时考虑到地方社区现有的脆弱性。在本文中，我们详细描述了一种新方法，用于与威尔士南部工业城镇塔尔博特港的居民一起探索当地能源系统的变化。我们的基于人物角色的方法要求当地居民小组通过发展当地人物或“人物角色”来探索能源系统变化的基于地点的场景。通过将审议置于当地环境中，并将其置于居民日常生活中重要的情感关系中，基于人物角色的探索提供了一个有用的基础，可以对复杂的社会技术能源问题进行审议，否则这些问题可以被呈现和解释为相当抽象和技术的变化愿景。特别是，我们说明了这种方法如何让参与者开放自己的个人生活，以及引发更多的同情考虑他人的需要，更好地引导参与者在他们的社区内的脆弱性问题。人物角色发展的两个关键过程实现了这一点：1）将个人身份，环境或历史（他们自己或朋友/家人）纳入人物角色中，2）在人物角色中体现对当地工业和社区衰落的共同社会理解。因此，我们认为，基于人物角色的探索提供了一个有价值的工具，可以更广泛地深化围绕能源系统转型和社会技术变革的情感和特定背景的公众讨论。
With the public deeply embedded at the heart of the energy system, it is essential that any transition is shaped by what is socially acceptable/desirable at local levels, taking account of any existing vulnerabilities within the local community. In this paper, we present a detailed description of a novel method for exploring local energy systems change with residents of Port Talbot, an industrial town in south Wales. Our persona-based approach asked small groups of local residents to explore place-based scenarios for energy systems change through the development of local characters or 'personas'. By situating deliberation within a local context and grounding it in the emotional relationships that matter in residents' everyday lives, persona-based exploration provides a useful foundation upon which to conduct deliberation of complex socio-technical energy issues that can otherwise be presented and interpreted as quite abstract and technical visions of change. In particular we illustrate how this approach allowed participants to open up about their personal lives, as well as eliciting more sympathetic consideration of the needs of others by better orienting participants to the issues of vulnerability within their communities. Two key processes of persona development enabled this: 1) the incorporation of personal identities, circumstances, or histories (both of themselves or friends/family) within personas, and 2) the embodiment of shared social understandings of local industrial and community decline within personas. As such, we believe that persona-based exploration offers a valuable tool for deepening emotional and context specific public deliberations around energy systems transitions and sociotechnical change more broadly.