Solar Power in the UK - Planning for a Sustainable Future

英国的太阳能——规划可持续的未来

• 批准号: ES/X001512/1
• 负责人: David Toke
• 金额: $ 78.29万
• 依托单位: University of Aberdeen
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX001512%2F1
• 关键词: Solar; Power; UK; Planning; Sustainable

The key aim of this project is to further understanding of factors influencing the outcomes of planning applications for ground-mounted solar photovoltaics (pv) farms at a local authority level. This will be done through qualitative interviewing, surveys, ethnographic analysis and statistical analysis of GIS data and data from planning reports. A particular focus will be analysis of the role of narratives in shaping the outcomes of solar planning applications with other approaches being used to supplement knowledge so that a comprehensive toolbox for analysis of solar planning outcomes can be developed.This is a vitally important topic given the importance of deployment of solar pv to the UK's net zero by 2050 target and the balancing of differing sustainable development objectives including local acceptance of renewable energy developments. It is also curcial since this represents an important possibility to advance the theory of the role of narratives in environmental and planning outcomes, and exploring how values amongst those involved in planning interact with the wider community and their relationships with the landscape. This is an area of planning policy that is underdeveloped in a systematic way, and this proposal presents a comprehensive means of doing this utilising an interdisciplinary set of tools including political science, anthropology and Geography. The local planning politics of solar pv is relatively under-researched, and there is a relative lack of understanding of the interaction between locally held beliefs about solar pv, place identities, local relationships with landscapes and the narrative strategies of interest groups seeking to influence local public opinion. Hypotheses to be tested are; that stakeholder narratives involving emphasis of 'hero' actors are more effective in influencing people than emphasising 'villains'; that stakeholder strategies are stable throughout planning debates; planning outcomes and the views of local people as measured by relative support for pro- or anti- solar farms narratives show a significant association with narrative strategies by stakeholders; Planning outcomes are significantly more associated with local peoples support for different stakeholder narrative strategies than about their expressions of place identity.Methods will include: 1. Analysis of two recent solar pv planning application cases (one granted, one refused) in order to study differences in stakeholder narrative strategies and also responses to them by selected panel members 2. Surveys and research into a current planning case with a survey at the start and the end of a consultation, this time surveying 1000 local people as well as their response to stakeholder narratives. 3. interviews with a range of relevant actors and 4. ethnographic participant observation work. Analysis of GIS data will inform the selection of case studies and analysis of the results. The analysis of stakeholder narratives and the responses by local people to surveys will be supplemented by ethnographic studies of the participants in two ongoing solar pv planning cases. Participant observation will include shared walks in the landscape with community members and landowners, attendance at meetings and consultation events, engagement with solar pv developers, and online ethnography.This research will be placed in the context of a wider study of l00 solar pv planning cases in order to examine non-narrative factors that can be measured, and which how they are associated with differing planning outcomes. These factors include geographical and demographic factors as well as the responses of planning officers, different statutory agencies and NGOs to planning consultations. GIS techniques will be used to identify potential planning cases for study and also in analysis of the 100 cases.

该项目的主要目的是进一步理解影响地方当局层面上安装的太阳能光伏（PV）农场计划申请结果的因素。这将通过定性访谈，调查，人种学分析和GIS数据和计划报告中数据的统计分析来完成。一个特别的重点将是分析叙事在塑造太阳计划应用结果中的作用，并使用其他方法来补充知识，以便可以开发出一个全面的太阳能计划成果工具箱，这是一个至关重要的主题，鉴于将索尔尔PV部署到英国净零为2050的能源范围内的局部范围的范围众多的局部范围的范围的范围是众所周知的，包括维持众多的开发项目的平衡，这是一个重要的主题。这也是姜黄，因为这代表了推进叙事在环境和计划结果中的作用理论的重要可能性，并探索参与计划的人与更广泛的社区互动及其与景观的关系之间的价值观。这是一个计划政策的领域，以系统的方式不发达，该提案提出了一种使用跨学科的工具（包括政治学，人类学和地理学）来做到这一点的全面手段。太阳能光伏的当地规划政治相对不足，并且相对缺乏对当地持有的关于太阳能PV的信念，位置身份，与景观的当地关系以及寻求影响当地舆论的利益群体的叙事策略之间的相互作用。要测试的假设是；利益相关者的叙事涉及“英雄”演员的强调比强调“小人”更有效地影响人们。在整个计划辩论中，利益相关者的策略稳定；通过对亲或反太阳能农场叙事的相对支持衡量的计划成果和当地人的观点与利益相关者的叙事策略有着重要的联系；与当地人民对不同利益相关者的叙事策略的支持相比，计划结果与对地点身份的表达更大的关系。方法包括：1。分析两个最近的太阳能PV计划申请案例（一个被授予，一个拒绝，一个拒绝），以便研究利益相关者的叙事策略，并通过选定的研究成员进行研究。调查1000个当地人以及他们对利益相关者叙事的反应。 3。对一系列相关参与者和4。人种学参与者观察工作的访谈。 GIS数据的分析将为案例研究的选择和结果分析提供信息。在两个正在进行的太阳能光伏计划案例中，对参与者的民族志研究，对利益相关者叙事的分析以及当地人对调查的反应将得到补充。参与者的观察将包括与社区成员和土地所有者在景观中的共享散步，参加会议和咨询活动，与太阳能PV开发人员的交往以及在线人种志。将在更广泛的研究L00太阳能PV计划案例的情况下进行研究，以检查可以测量哪些可以测量哪些与不同计划的非叙事因素。这些因素包括地理和人口统计学因素以及规划官员的回应，不同的法定机构以及非政府组织对计划咨询的反应。 GIS技术将用于确定潜在的研究案例以及对100例案例的分析。