Solar Power in the UK - Planning for a Sustainable Future

该项目的主要目的是进一步了解影响地方当局一级地面太阳能光伏发电场规划申请结果的因素。这将通过定性访谈、调查、人种学分析以及地理信息系统数据和规划报告数据的统计分析来完成。一个特别的重点将是分析叙述在塑造太阳能规划应用结果方面的作用，并使用其他方法补充知识，以便开发一个分析太阳能规划结果的综合工具箱。鉴于到2050年将太阳能光伏部署到英国的净零目标以及平衡不同的可持续发展目标(包括当地对可再生能源发展的接受程度)的重要性，这是一个至关重要的主题。这也是重要的，因为这代表了一种重要的可能性，即推进叙事在环境和规划结果中的作用的理论，并探索参与规划的人的价值观如何与更广泛的社区互动，以及他们与景观的关系。这是一个系统发展不足的规划政策领域，这项提案提出了一种综合方法，利用包括政治学、人类学和地理学在内的一套跨学科工具来做到这一点。太阳能光伏的地方规划政治研究相对较少，对当地持有的关于太阳能光伏的信念、地点身份、地方与景观的关系以及寻求影响当地公众舆论的利益集团的叙事策略之间的相互作用也相对缺乏了解。有待检验的假设是：利益相关者的叙述涉及强调“英雄”行为者，比强调“恶棍”更有效地影响人们；利益相关者的战略在整个规划辩论中是稳定的；规划结果和当地人的观点，以支持或反对太阳能农场的相对支持率衡量，表明与利益相关者的叙述战略有显著关联；规划结果与当地居民对不同利益相关者叙事策略的支持程度显著高于他们对地点身份的表达。方法将包括：1.分析最近的两个太阳能光伏规划申请案例(一个被批准，一个被拒绝)，以研究利益相关者叙事策略的差异以及选定的小组成员对它们的反应2.对当前规划案例进行调查和研究，在咨询开始和结束时进行调查，这次调查了1000名当地人以及他们对利益相关者叙事的反应。3.与一系列相关行为者的面谈和4.民族志参与者观察工作。对地理信息系统数据的分析将为案例研究的选择和结果分析提供信息。对利益攸关方叙述的分析和当地人对调查的答复将得到对正在进行的两个太阳能光伏规划案例的参与者进行的民族志研究的补充。参与者观察将包括与社区成员和土地所有者在景观中共享散步，出席会议和咨询活动，与太阳能光伏开发商的互动，以及在线民族志。这项研究将放在对100个太阳能光伏规划案例的更广泛研究的背景下，以检查可以衡量的非叙事因素，以及它们如何与不同的规划结果相关联。这些因素包括地理和人口因素，以及规划人员、不同法定机构和非政府组织对规划咨询的反应。将使用地理信息系统技术来识别潜在的规划案例进行研究，并对100个案例进行分析。

The key aim of this project is to further understanding of factors influencing the outcomes of planning applications for ground-mounted solar photovoltaics (pv) farms at a local authority level. This will be done through qualitative interviewing, surveys, ethnographic analysis and statistical analysis of GIS data and data from planning reports. A particular focus will be analysis of the role of narratives in shaping the outcomes of solar planning applications with other approaches being used to supplement knowledge so that a comprehensive toolbox for analysis of solar planning outcomes can be developed.This is a vitally important topic given the importance of deployment of solar pv to the UK's net zero by 2050 target and the balancing of differing sustainable development objectives including local acceptance of renewable energy developments. It is also curcial since this represents an important possibility to advance the theory of the role of narratives in environmental and planning outcomes, and exploring how values amongst those involved in planning interact with the wider community and their relationships with the landscape. This is an area of planning policy that is underdeveloped in a systematic way, and this proposal presents a comprehensive means of doing this utilising an interdisciplinary set of tools including political science, anthropology and Geography. The local planning politics of solar pv is relatively under-researched, and there is a relative lack of understanding of the interaction between locally held beliefs about solar pv, place identities, local relationships with landscapes and the narrative strategies of interest groups seeking to influence local public opinion. Hypotheses to be tested are; that stakeholder narratives involving emphasis of 'hero' actors are more effective in influencing people than emphasising 'villains'; that stakeholder strategies are stable throughout planning debates; planning outcomes and the views of local people as measured by relative support for pro- or anti- solar farms narratives show a significant association with narrative strategies by stakeholders; Planning outcomes are significantly more associated with local peoples support for different stakeholder narrative strategies than about their expressions of place identity.Methods will include: 1. Analysis of two recent solar pv planning application cases (one granted, one refused) in order to study differences in stakeholder narrative strategies and also responses to them by selected panel members 2. Surveys and research into a current planning case with a survey at the start and the end of a consultation, this time surveying 1000 local people as well as their response to stakeholder narratives. 3. interviews with a range of relevant actors and 4. ethnographic participant observation work. Analysis of GIS data will inform the selection of case studies and analysis of the results. The analysis of stakeholder narratives and the responses by local people to surveys will be supplemented by ethnographic studies of the participants in two ongoing solar pv planning cases. Participant observation will include shared walks in the landscape with community members and landowners, attendance at meetings and consultation events, engagement with solar pv developers, and online ethnography.This research will be placed in the context of a wider study of l00 solar pv planning cases in order to examine non-narrative factors that can be measured, and which how they are associated with differing planning outcomes. These factors include geographical and demographic factors as well as the responses of planning officers, different statutory agencies and NGOs to planning consultations. GIS techniques will be used to identify potential planning cases for study and also in analysis of the 100 cases.