Landscapes of Power: Deliberating the New Energy Economy

虽然全国性的民意调查经常显示出对新能源经济的明确支持，但美国农村地区出现了反对风能开发的强烈反对运动。从北卡罗来纳州到加州的社区都在激烈的斗争中，通过全面的立法行为和分区条例来限制新的安装。这种政治反应在一定程度上是过时的公众参与模式的结果，这些模式未能充分捕捉到广阔的新能源地区出现时发生的社会文化混乱和脆弱性。该项目的目的是促进公众审议在设计新的美国能源经济的作用的理解。该项目以风能为重点，旨在设计、测试和评估一个审议模型，让不同的公众参与到积极发展地区的新能源景观中。研究将分三个阶段进行。第一阶段改进了景观专题讨论会的方法，使其成为审议性规划中新兴的最佳做法，包括使用景观可视化和前瞻性规划技术。在第二阶段，将在县一级的不同地理位置举行三次试验性专题讨论会，以社区居民为样本。 第三阶段将比较研究这些试验性专题讨论会的审议过程和成果。比较分析将为风能规划社区指南的编制提供信息，该指南将使行业、机构和倡导团体能够获得结果。 项目？的学术价值在于它的扩展主要是欧洲STS模型和参与性科学和技术评估的见解对关键的美国环境政策的关注。该项目还将设计和测试一套可视化技术，以引起对景观变化的社会文化关切，包括使用动态绘图工具、实地图尔斯参观和照片分析。项目？的更广泛的影响集中在催化参与式审议的新能源技术，正在重塑美国社区和景观。 除了学术和行业出版物和介绍外，该项目的外联部分还包括培训本科研究人员、科学咖啡馆、大型公共讲座以及为行业、非政府组织和机构专业人员编写国家社区指南

While national opinion polls often demonstrate unequivocal support for a new energy economy, there is a strong countermovement emerging across rural America against wind energy development. Communities from North Carolina to California are in the midst of furious battles to limit new installations through sweeping legislative acts and zoning ordinances. This political response is in part a consequence of outdated modes of public participation that fail to fully capture the socio-cultural dislocations and vulnerabilities that occur when vast new energy geographies emerge. The objective of this project is to advance understandings of the role of public deliberation in the design of the new American energy economy. With a focus on wind energy, this project seeks to design, test and evaluate a deliberative model that engages diverse publics toward envisioning a new energy landscape in regions of active development. The research will be performed over three phases. Phase I refines the landscape symposia approach so that it represents emerging best practices in deliberative planning, including the use of landscape visualization and foresight planning techniques. In Phase II, three test symposia will be conducted at diverse geographical locations at the county level involving samples of community residents. Phase III will comparatively examine the deliberative processes and outcomes of these test symposia. The comparative analysis will inform the production of a Community Guide for wind energy planning that will make results accessible to industry, agency and advocacy groups. The project?s intellectual merit lies in its extension of largely European STS models and insights on participatory science and technology assessment toward critical American environmental policy concerns. The project will also design and test a set of visualization techniques that elicit socio-cultural concerns about landscape change, including the use of dynamic mapping tools, field tours and photographic analyses. The project?s broader impacts focus on catalyzing participatory deliberation about the new energy technologies that are reshaping American communities and landscapes. In addition to academic and industry publications and presentations, the outreach components of the project include the training of undergraduate researchers, a science café, large public lecture, and the production of a national Community Guide for industry, NGO and agency professionals