Envisioning and implementing wood-based bioenergy systems in the southern United States: Imaginaries in everyday talk
Envisioning and implementing wood-based bioenergy systems in the southern United States: Imaginaries in everyday talk
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DOI：
10.1016/j.erss.2017.10.042
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发表时间：
2017-10
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
J. Schelhas;Sarah Hitchner;J. Brosius
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作者：
J. Schelhas;Sarah Hitchner;J. Brosius
据说，美国南部的生物能源发展有望带来可再生能源、能源独立、扩大木材市场和农村发展的未来。我们认为木质生物能源的这一愿景是一种社会技术想象，涉及使用可持续收获的当地资源来满足能源和农村发展需求的未来。虽然这一愿景导致了生物能源的发展，但它并没有得到普遍认同，相反的说法也在流传。当地人收到多条信息，并对生物能源有不同的经历，这影响了他们对想象的解读。我们使用文化模型来检验国家生物能源元素在三个最近开发了生物能源工厂的社区的日常谈话中出现的程度和方式。我们展示了当地人如何表达、回应和改变国家生物能源的想象，同时借鉴不同的经验、价值观和其他重要的社会话语。虽然当地人改变国家想象的机会有限，但他们对此提出异议，并对其进行稀释，表明他们并不完全支持想象及其刺激的发展。最终，这可能会阻碍生物能源的发展。
Bioenergy development in the Southern United States was said to promise a future with renewable energy, energy independence, expanded wood markets, and rural development. We view this vision of wood-based bioenergy as a sociotechnical imaginary involving a future where energy and rural development needs are met using sustainably-harvested local resources. While this vision has led to bioenergy development, it has not been universally shared and counter-narratives have circulated. Local people receive multiple messages and have diverse experiences with bioenergy, which affect how they interpret the imaginary. We use cultural models to examine the extent and ways that elements of the national bioenergy imaginary occurred in everyday talk in three communities where bioenergy plants had recently been developed. We show how local people articulated, responded to, and altered the national bioenergy imaginary while simultaneously drawing on diverse experiences, values, and other important social discourses. While local people had limited opportunities to alter the national imaginary, they contested and diluted it in ways that indicated that they were not fully in support of the imaginary and the development it spurred. Ultimately, this may hinder bioenergy development.