Landscapes of Power: Deliberating the New Energy Economy

虽然全国民意调查经常显示出对新能源经济的明确支持，但美国农村地区正在出现一场反对风能开发的强烈反对运动。从北卡罗来纳州到加利福尼亚州的社区正在进行激烈的斗争，试图通过全面的立法和分区法令来限制新的设施。这种政治回应在一定程度上是过时的公众参与模式的结果，这些模式未能充分反映出当出现大量新能源地理区域时出现的社会文化错位和脆弱性。该项目的目的是促进公众对公众审议在设计新的美国能源经济中的作用的理解。该项目以风能为重点，旨在设计、测试和评估一种审慎的模式，让不同的公众参与，展望活跃发展地区的新能源景观。研究将分三个阶段进行。第一阶段完善了景观专题讨论会的方法，使其成为审议规划中新出现的最佳做法，包括使用景观可视化和前瞻性规划技术。在第二阶段，将在县级不同的地理位置举行三次测试性研讨会，涉及社区居民的样本。第三阶段将比较审查这些测试性专题讨论会的审议过程和结果。比较分析将为编制一份风能规划社区指南提供信息，该指南将使行业、机构和倡导团体能够获得结果。S项目的学术价值在于，它在很大程度上扩展了欧洲的STS模型，并针对关键的美国环境政策问题，对参与式科学技术评估提出了见解。该项目还将设计和测试一套可视化技术，以引起社会文化对景观变化的关注，包括使用动态绘图工具、实地考察和摄影分析。项目？S，更广泛的影响集中在催化对正在重塑美国社区和景观的新能源技术的参与性审议。除了学术和行业出版物和演示文稿外，该项目的外联部分还包括培训本科生研究人员、一个科学咖啡馆、大型公开讲座以及为行业、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 This political response is in part a consequence of outdated modes of public participation that fail to fully capture the socio-cultural dislocations and vulnerabilities that occur when vast new energy geographies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