The role of place attachment in community renewable energy: an interdisciplinary study

这项建议是为了利用人文地理学和规划政策进行跨学科的协作研究。它解决了知识的双重鸿沟；人们对地点依恋如何影响社区能源项目的反应知之甚少，到目前为止还没有发表的研究询问更好地理解这一点如何有助于规划政策和实践。可再生能源得到了广泛的支持(ComRes，2016)，但往往强烈反对具体的建议，这可能导致计划被推迟或被拒绝(Jones和Eiser，2010)。地点依恋是人文地理学和环境心理学中用来研究人与地点之间情感纽带的一个概念，已被证明影响人们对大规模可再生能源开发的反应，如风力发电场(Devine-Wright，2011a)，其他大型能源基础设施，如高压输电线(Devine-Wright，2013；Bailey等人，2016)，以及较小规模的社区能源项目(van Veelen and Haggett，2016)。也有人建议将地点依恋应用于规划政策，以告知社区参与和帮助管理冲突(Devine-Wright，2009)。有时，人们认为社区所有权减少了对可再生能源项目的反对(Bell等人，2005)，但van Veelen&Haggett(Op.如图所示)警告这种假设。他们对苏格兰高地的两个方案的分析是唯一发表的专门在社区能量中寻找地点依恋的研究；地点依恋被发现影响着差异很大的反应。我的建议在将证据基础扩展到英格兰方面是新颖的，并包括对潜在政策应用的分析。我的研究将基于康沃尔的案例研究，在那里，丰富的可再生资源因其对经济的贡献而被置于政策的中心(康沃尔委员会，2013)。康沃尔委员会寻求社区对发电能力拥有更大的所有权，并在将这一点纳入补充规划指导中进行了创新(康沃尔委员会，2016)。然而，交付一直很少，部分原因是当地的反对(Simpson，2017，Niven，2014)；我的研究通过发展对反对原因的理解并寻找通过开发过程解决这个问题的方法来解决这个问题。

This proposal is for a collaborative interdisciplinary study drawing from human geography andplanning policy. It addresses a two-fold gap in knowledge; little is known about how placeattachment informs responses to community energy projects and no published studies todate have asked how a better understanding of this might inform planning policy andpractice.Renewable energy has widespread support (ComRes, 2016), but there is often strongopposition to specific proposals, which can lead to schemes being delayed or rejected (Jonesand Eiser, 2010). Place attachment, a concept used in human geography and environmentalpsychology to study the emotional bonds between people and places, has been shown toinfluence how people respond to large-scale renewable energy developments such as windfarms (Devine-Wright, 2011a), other large-scale energy infrastructure such as high voltagepower lines (Devine-Wright, 2013; Bailey et al, 2016), and smaller scale community energyprojects (van Veelen and Haggett, 2016). It has also been suggested that place attachmentmight be applied in planning policy to inform community engagement and help manageconflicts (Devine-Wright 2009).It is sometimes assumed that community ownership reduces opposition to renewable energyprojects (Bell et al, 2005), but van Veelen & Haggett (op. cit.) warn against this presumption.Their analysis of two schemes in the Highlands of Scotland is the only published study to datelooking specifically at place attachment in community energy; place attachment was found toinfluence widely varying responses. My proposal is novel in extending the evidence base toEngland and including an analysis of potential policy application.My study will be based on case studies in Cornwall, where plentiful renewable resources arecentral to policy for their contribution to the economy (Cornwall Council, 2013). CornwallCouncil seeks greater community ownership of generating capacity and has innovated inincluding this in supplementary planning guidance (Cornwall Council, 2016). Delivery has beenslow however, due in part to local opposition (Simpson, 2017, Niven, 2014); my studyaddresses this by developing understanding of the reasons for opposition and looking forways to address it through the development process.