Solar Power in the UK - Planning for a Sustainable Future

英国的太阳能——规划可持续的未来

• 批准号: ES/X001512/1
• 负责人: David Toke
• 金额: $ 78.29万
• 依托单位: University of Aberdeen
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX001512%2F1
• 关键词: Solar; Power; UK; Planning; Sustainable

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.

本研究的主要目的是进一步了解影响地方政府层面地面太阳能光伏发电场规划应用结果的因素。这将通过定性访谈、调查、人种学分析和对地理信息系统数据和规划报告数据的统计分析来进行。一个特别的重点将是分析叙述在塑造太阳能规划应用成果方面的作用，并使用其他方法来补充知识，以便开发一个用于分析太阳能规划成果的综合工具箱。这是一个至关重要的主题，因为到2050年部署太阳能光伏发电对英国净零目标的重要性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。这也是curcial，因为这代表了一个重要的可能性，以推进理论的叙事在环境和规划成果的作用，并探讨如何参与规划之间的价值观与更广泛的社区和他们的关系与景观互动。这是一个规划政策领域，是欠发达的系统方式，本提案提出了一个全面的手段，这样做，利用一套跨学科的工具，包括政治学，人类学和地理学。太阳能光伏发电的地方规划政策研究相对不足，对当地人对太阳能光伏发电的信念、地方身份、当地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。待检验的假设有：利益相关者的叙述涉及强调“英雄”演员比强调“恶棍”在影响人们方面更有效;利益相关者的战略在整个规划辩论中是稳定的;规划结果和当地人民的观点（通过对支持或反对太阳能发电场叙述的相对支持来衡量）显示出与利益相关者的叙述战略的显著关联;规划成果与当地民众对不同利益相关者叙述策略的支持程度显著相关，而与他们对地方认同的表达方式无关。分析两个最近的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述策略的差异，以及选定的小组成员对他们的回应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述的反应。3.与一系列相关行为者的访谈和4.民族志参与观察工作。对地理信息系统数据的分析将有助于选择案例研究和分析结果。对两个正在进行的太阳能光伏规划案例中参与者的人种学研究将补充对利益相关者叙述和当地人对调查的回应的分析。参与者的观察将包括与社区成员和土地所有者一起在景观中散步，参加会议和咨询活动，与太阳能光伏开发商接触，以及在线人种学。这项研究将被置于100个太阳能光伏规划案例的更广泛研究的背景下，以研究可以测量的非叙事因素，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，以及规划官员、不同法定机构和非政府组织对规划咨询的反应。地理信息系统技术将用于确定可供研究的潜在规划案例，并用于分析100个案例。