Net-Zero Visions for the Devon Climate Emergency

德文郡气候紧急情况的净零愿景

• 批准号: AH/W003481/1
• 负责人: David Sergeant
• 金额: $ 10.04万
• 依托单位: Plymouth University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW003481%2F1
• 关键词: Net; Zero; Visions; Devon; Climate

This project emerges from a 2-year AHRC-funded Early Career Researcher Leadership Fellowship project, 'Imagining Alternatives: Utopia, Community and the Novel, 1880-2015', which investigated how the near future is being imagined and represented. This research explored a tendency in fiction to either consider the individual or the mass global scale, neglecting sites such as community, region and nation where substantial agency might still be located. It also examined the preponderance of dystopian future visions and the corresponding need for optimistic or 'utopian' thinking that can open a sense of possibility for the future, build capacity for change, and counter feelings of pessimism and disempowerment. Through a series of workshops and events, in collaboration with community groups and the renewable energy not-for-profit Regen, the PI developed an engagement model for catalysing local change through the imagination of place-based futures.Devon Climate Emergency Response Group (DCERG) was established to coordinate a collaborative response to the Devon Climate Emergency, and is made up of senior officers of about 25 organisations including: 11 county councils; emergency services; businesses; and voluntary organisations. As a result of his research the PI was invited to engage with the Net-Zero Task Force, a team drawn from economic, environmental, health and academic organisations and chaired by a leading climate expert, who have been tasked by DCERG with producing an evidence-led Devon Carbon Plan (DCP) for becoming net-zero carbon by 2050. The PI's research led to the creation of a goal and priority action for the plan: to support community groups to develop local net-zero visions, in which they imagine a decarbonised Devon collectively and in detail. The follow-on funding will allow this goal to be actioned and achieved, thereby helping build public support for the legitimacy and feasibility of change to net-zero; helping people to realise that change for the better is possible; and supporting communities in re-imagining themselves in the context of net-zero, so increasing local capacity for transition.The project team comprises the PI and CI Dr Emma Whittaker, the Creative Industries Research Fellow for the 'Low Carbon Devon' project at the University of Plymouth. They will work with Emily Reed, Project Manager at the project partner DCERG, and members of the Net-Zero Task Force; acclaimed Devon-based Creative Industry professionals, Sue Gent (illustrator), Ashley Potter (animation), Mutant Creative & Mutant Labs (games developers), Kate Crawfurd (mural artist) with Igneous Interactive (Augmented Reality); community groups or coalitions of groups from 7 locations across Devon; a book production team based at the University of Plymouth. The project activities will have several strands:1. Coproduction of Showcase Net-Zero Visions in 7 different locations, with each Vision linked together on conclusion by the award-winning Devon-based poet Fiona Benson: to help build public awareness of and engagement with the DCP, and to promote a willingness to consider change as possible. To be disseminated via webpages on the DCERG website, launch events, and a book with photos, essay by PI and participant accounts.2. Solicitation, selection and dissemination of Net-Zero Devon visions from the public, hosted on the webpages, so as to foster detailed engagement in the DCP via the underpinning research ideas.3. Coproduction of supporting material for interaction with Net-Zero visions, to be hosted on the webpages. A key aim will be to engage with new audiences as identified by partner DCERG and lead community stakeholders.4. A one-day workshop with project team, partner, and other stakeholders. This will coproduce the dissemination activities and engagement materials, and feed into a model of best practice for using local net-zero visions as a tool for catalysing change with communities.

这个项目来自AHRC资助的一个为期两年的早期职业研究人员领导力奖学金项目，该项目名为“想象替代方案：乌托邦、社区和小说，1880-2015”，该项目调查了不久的未来是如何被想象和表现的。这项研究探索了小说中的一种倾向，即要么考虑个人，要么考虑群体的全球规模，而忽略了社区、地区和国家等可能仍然存在大量中介机构的地点。它还审查了反乌托邦的未来愿景占主导地位，以及相应地需要乐观或‘乌托邦’思维，这种思维可以为未来打开一种可能性感，建设变革能力，并抵制悲观主义和无能为力的情绪。通过与社区团体和可再生能源非营利性组织Regen合作举办一系列研讨会和活动，PI开发了一种参与模式，通过对基于地点的未来的想象来催化当地变化。德文郡气候应急小组(DCERG)是为协调对德文郡气候紧急情况的协作反应而成立的，由大约25个组织的高级官员组成，其中包括：11个县议会；紧急服务；企业；以及志愿组织。作为他的研究的结果，PI被邀请参与净零任务小组，该小组由经济、环境、卫生和学术组织组成，由一位领先的气候专家担任主席，DCERG的任务是制定一项以证据为导向的德文碳计划(DCP)，以在2050年实现净零碳。PI的研究为该计划创造了一个目标和优先行动：支持社区团体发展当地的净零愿景，他们设想一个集体和详细的脱碳德文郡。后续的资金将使这一目标得以实现，从而帮助建立公众对净零变化的合法性和可行性的支持；帮助人们意识到向更好的变化是可能的；并支持社区在净零变化的背景下重新想象自己，从而提高当地的过渡能力。项目团队由普利茅斯大学创意产业研究员艾玛·惠特克博士组成，她是普利茅斯大学的低碳德文项目的创意产业研究员。他们将与项目合作伙伴DCERG的项目经理Emily Reed和Net-Zero工作组的成员合作；德文郡广受赞誉的创意行业专业人士，Sue Gent(插图画家)，Ashley Potter(动画)，Mutant Creative&Mutant Labs(游戏开发商)，Kate Crawford(壁画艺术家)与Fireneous Interactive(增强现实)；来自德文郡7个地点的社区团体或团体联盟；普利茅斯大学的图书制作团队。项目活动将有几个方面：1.在7个不同的地点联合制作Showcase Net-Zero Visions，每个愿景都在一起，由获奖的德文郡诗人Fiona Benson在结束时联系在一起：帮助建立公众对DCP的认识和参与，并促进尽可能考虑变化的意愿。将通过DCERG网站上的网页、启动活动以及一本有照片、国际宣传社的文章和参与者账户的书进行传播。在网页上向公众征集、选择和传播净零发展远景，以便通过作为基础的研究想法促进对方案的详细参与。共同制作与Net-Zero视觉互动的辅助材料，放在网页上。一个关键目标将是与合作伙伴DCERG和主要社区利益相关者确定的新受众接触。与项目团队、合作伙伴和其他利益相关者举行的为期一天的研讨会。这将共同制作传播活动和参与材料，并纳入最佳做法模式，利用当地的净零愿景作为与社区一起推动变革的工具。