ABSTRACT
This book analyses the potential for active stakeholder engagement in the energy transition in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) in order to foster clean energy deployment.
Public acceptability and bottom-up activities can be critical for enduring outcomes to an energy transition. As a result, it is vital to understand how to unlock the potential for public, community and prosumer participation to facilitate renewable energy deployment and a clean energy transition – and, consequently, to examine the factors influencing social acceptability. Focussing on the diverse BSR, this book draws on expert contributions to consider a range of different topics, including the challenges of social acceptance and its policy implications; strategies to address challenges of acceptability among stakeholders; and community engagement in clean energy production. Overall, the authors examine the practical implications of current policy measures and provide recommendations on how lessons learnt from this ‘energy lab region’ may be applied to other regions.
Reflecting an interdisciplinary approach in the social sciences, this book is an essential resource for scholars, students and policymakers researching and working in the areas of renewable energy, energy policy and citizen engagement, and interested in understanding the potential for bottom-up, grassroots activities and social acceptability to expedite the energy transition and reanimate democracies.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |16 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|14 pages
Energy transition in the Baltic Sea Region
part I|42 pages
Stakeholder engagement and acceptance
chapter 2|22 pages
Active participation in the energy transition
chapter 3|18 pages
Acceptance issues in the transition to renewable energy
part II|50 pages
Energy policy for engaging people for an energy transition in the Baltic Sea Region
chapter 4|29 pages
Citizen preferences for co-investing in renewable energy
chapter 5|19 pages
Better off alone?
part III|96 pages
Flexibility options for demand-side, social acceptance and community engagement
chapter 6|24 pages
From acceptability and acceptance to active behavioral support
chapter 7|20 pages
Engaging the public for citizen energy production in Norway
chapter 8|30 pages
Revitalization: Living Lab as a format for accelerating energy transition in Polish rural areas
part IV|62 pages
Insights from other sectors and regions
chapter 10|18 pages
Actor roles and practices in energy transitions
chapter 11|23 pages
A mixed methods engaged study of divergent imaginaries in Bergen's mobility transition
chapter 12|19 pages
Co-creating policies on societal transformations as a factor of resilience of modern society
part |12 pages
Conclusion