Public values for energy futures: Framing, indeterminacy and policy making
Public values for energy futures: Framing, indeterminacy and policy making
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10.1016/j.enpol.2015.01.035
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2015-12
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9
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C. Butler;Christina Demski;K. Parkhill;N. Pidgeon;A. Spence
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作者：
C. Butler;Christina Demski;K. Parkhill;N. Pidgeon;A. Spence
在英国，向低碳能源系统转型有着强有力的政策要求，但如何以及以何种方式实现这一转型过程仍高度不确定。一个关键的不确定性领域涉及公众的态度和可接受性。尽管有广泛的与公众可接受性相关的研究，但很少有工作揭示了政策制定者如何在制定能源系统变革的努力中应对和减轻相关不确定性的多重问题。在本文中，公众接受度被确定为不确定性的一种不确定形式，为政策制定提出了特殊的挑战。我们以现有的关于能源系统变革的公共价值的研究为基础，探索如何通过与公众可接受性相关的不确定性来应用项目的结果。值得注意的是，我们说明了通过我们的研究确定的公共价值观如何将替代的和完全不同的问题和解决方案框架带入英国政策中目前显而易见的问题和解决方案框架。我们认为，参与各种不同的框架可以为更好地理解和预测公众对能源系统变化的反应提供基础，最终有助于管理与公众可接受性相关的一系列复杂的不确定性。
In the UK there are strong policy imperatives to transition toward low carbon energy systems but how and in what ways such transitional processes might be realised remains highly uncertain. One key area of uncertainty pertains to public attitudes and acceptability. Though there is wide-ranging research relevant to public acceptability, very little work has unpacked the multiple questions concerning how policy-makers can grapple with and mitigate related uncertainties in efforts to enact energy systems change. In this paper, public acceptability is identified as an indeterminate form of uncertainty that presents particular challenges for policy making. We build on our existing research into public values for energy system change to explore how the outcomes of the project can be applied in thinking through the uncertainties associated with public acceptability. Notably, we illustrate how the public values identified through our research bring into view alternative and quite different problem and solution framings to those currently evident within UK policy. We argue that engagement with a wide range of different framings can offer a basis for better understanding and anticipating public responses to energy system change, ultimately aiding in managing the complex set of uncertainties associated with public acceptability.