Overview
- Provides a critical approach to research on the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures and energy transitions
- Brings together authors from different disciplinary backgrounds within the social sciences to discuss a unique critical approach
- Offers academics, students and practitioners a comprehensive perspective of what it means to be critical when inquiring into the social acceptance of renewable energy and associated infrastructures
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
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Overcoming Individualism and Socio-Cognitive Reductionism
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Repoliticisations—Recognising and Articulating Power Relations
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Interventions—Praxis and Political Engagement with Research
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Overcoming Localism and Spatial Determinism
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susana Batel is an environmental psychologist at the University Institute of Lisbon interested in people’s engagement with energy transitions and associated social justice issues. She has published in journals like the Journal of Environmental Psychology, Energy Policy and Energy Research & Social Science, and is co-editor of Papers on Social Representations.
David Rudolph is a human geographer at the Technical University of Denmark with an interest in just, inclusive and equitable low-carbon energy transitions. He has published in journals such as Antipode, Environment and Planning C and Energy Research & Social Science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures
Book Subtitle: Going beyond green growth and sustainability
Editors: Susana Batel, David Rudolph
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73699-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73698-9Published: 26 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73701-6Published: 27 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73699-6Published: 25 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 262
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Environmental Geography, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Geography, general