dc.contributor.author | Batel, SA | |
dc.contributor.author | Devine-Wright, P | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-03-02T14:01:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-06-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | A national-local ‘gap’ is often used as the starting point for analyses of public responses to large scale energy infrastructures. We critique three assumptions found in that literature: the public's positive attitudes, without further examining other type of perceptions at a national level; that local perceptions are best examined through a siting rather than place-based approach; that a gap exists between national and local responses, despite a non-correspondence in how these are examined. Survey research conducted at national and local levels about electricity transmission lines in the UK confirm these criticisms. Results do not support a gap between national and local levels; instead, both differences and similarities were found. Results show the value of adopting a place-based approach and the role of surveys to inform policy making are discussed. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research was supported by the Research Council of Norway (SusGrid Grant No. 207774) and
the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (FlexNet: EP/EO4011X/1). The authors
would also like to acknowledge the beneficial comments and advice of their colleagues at the
Environment and Sustainability Research Group, Geography, University of Exeter, regarding previous
versions of this paper, as well as the helpful comments of the three anonymous reviewers that
commented on it. Thanks are also due to colleagues from the SusGrid project, specifically Audun
Ruud and Oystein Aas, and the participants in the research, for their contributions to this paper. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 58, pp.1076-1095 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/09640568.2014.914020 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/20383 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) | en_GB |
dc.subject | large-scale energy infrastructures | en_GB |
dc.subject | transmission lines | en_GB |
dc.subject | national-local 'gap' | en_GB |
dc.subject | publics' responses | en_GB |
dc.subject | community acceptance | en_GB |
dc.title | A critical and empirical analysis of the national-local ‘gap’ in public responses to large-scale energy infrastructures | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2016-03-02T14:01:07Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0964-0568 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis (Routledge) via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Journal of Environmental Planning and Management | en_GB |