TY - JOUR
TI - Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future
AU - Batel, S
T2 - Energy Research & Social Science
AB - Social sciences have been very prolific in the last decades in publishing research that attempts to better understand the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies and associated infrastructures (RET) – such as high voltage power lines – and processes – such as communities’ participation in related decision-making processes. This Perspective proposes that this might be a good point in time, roughly 30 years after social sciences begun looking at the social side of RET, to offer a (over)view on that research, if and how it has changed over time and where it leaves us currently or, in other words, which directions we should follow in the future. I first provide an overview of research on the social acceptance of RET, suggesting that it can be roughly organized around three waves - normative, criticism and critical -; for then identifying and discussing some avenues for future research.
DA - 2020/10//
PY - 2020
VL - 68
SP - 101544
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629620301213
DO - 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101544
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Human Dimensions
KW - Social & Economic Data
ER -