A conceptual framework for understanding the social acceptance of energy infrastructure: Insights from energy storage

A critical and empirical analysis of the national-local ‘gap’ in public responses to large-scale energy infrastructures

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At the Heart of a Sustainable Energy Transition: The Public Acceptability of Energy Projects

Between fixities and flows: Navigating place attachments in an increasingly mobile world

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Beyond NIMBYism: towards an integrated framework for understanding public perceptions of wind energy

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Briefing: Challenging lock-in through urban energy systems

Centralization, decentralization and the scales in between: what role might they play in the UK energy system?

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Close to the Edge, down by the River? Joining up Managed Retreat and Place Attachment in a Climate Changed World

Community renewable energy: What should it mean?

Comparing and Combining Theories to Explain Proenvironmental Intentions

Concern or compliance? Drivers of urban decentralised energy initiatives

Covariation in urban birds providing cultural services or disservices and people

scientific article published in 2018

Decentralising energy: comparing the drivers and influencers of projects led by public, private, community and third sector actors

Demand-side participation: price constraints, technical limits and behavioural risks

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Developing a critical agenda to understand pro-environmental actions: contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories

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Developing a critical agenda to understand pro-environmental actions: contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories

Discourses of Energy Infrastructure Development: A Q-Method Study of Electricity Transmission Line Siting in the UK

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Disruption to place attachment and the protection of restorative environments: A wind energy case study

Ecological and Psychological Value of Urban Green Space

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Effect of "finite pool of worry" and COVID-19 on UK climate change perceptions

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

Empathy, place and identity interactions for sustainability

scientific article published in 2019

Energy Colonialism and the Role of the Global in Local Responses to New Energy Infrastructures in the UK: A Critical and Exploratory Empirical Analysis

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Enhancing local distinctiveness fosters public acceptance of tidal energy: A UK case study

Expanding the role for psychology in addressing environmental challenges

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Explaining public preferences for high voltage pylon designs: An empirical study of perceived fit in a rural landscape

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Explaining “NIMBY” Objections to a Power Line

Good Neighbours, Public Relations and Bribes: The Politics and Perceptions of Community Benefit Provision in Renewable Energy Development in the UK

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Green space, soundscape and urban sustainability: an interdisciplinary, empirical study

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Growing importance of climate change beliefs for attitudes towards gas

scientific article published in 2023

Harnessing Community Energies: Explaining and Evaluating Community-Based Localism in Renewable Energy Policy in the UK

Interactions Between Perceived Behavioral Control and Personal-Normative Motives

Introduction to the special issue: Place, identity and environmental behaviour

Living with low carbon technologies: An agenda for sharing and comparing qualitative energy research

Local aspects of UK renewable energy development: exploring public beliefs and policy implications

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Local attachments and identities

Local perceptions of opportunities for engagement and procedural justice in electricity transmission grid projects in Norway and the UK

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Low carbon heating and older adults: comfort, cosiness and glow

Making electricity networks “visible”: Industry actor representations of “publics” and public engagement in infrastructure planning

My country or my planet? Exploring the influence of multiple place attachments and ideological beliefs upon climate change attitudes and opinions

scholarly article by Patrick Devine-Wright et al published January 2015 in Global Environmental Change

Opening up the “local” to analysis: exploring the spatiality of UK urban decentralised energy initiatives

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Partnership or placation? The role of trust and justice in the shared ownership of renewable energy projects

article by Fleur Goedkoop & Patrick Devine-Wright published July 2016 in Energy Research Social Science

Place attachment and public acceptance of renewable energy: A tidal energy case study

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Populism, identities and responses to energy infrastructures at different scales in the United Kingdom: A post-Brexit reflection

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Positive energies? An empirical study of community energy participation and attitudes to renewable energy

Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity

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Psychological research and global climate change

scholarly article by Susan Clayton et al published July 2015 in Nature Climate Change

Psychological responses to the proximity of climate change ⬇️

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Psychologists and the problem of population growth: Reply to Bridgeman (2017).

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Public Engagement with Community-Based Energy Service Provision: An Exploratory Case Study

Public beliefs about high-voltage powerlines in Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom: A comparative survey

scholarly article by Øystein Aas published in June 2014

Public engagement with large-scale renewable energy technologies: breaking the cycle of NIMBYism

Public engagement with offshore renewable energy: a critical review

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Public understanding of hydrogen energy: A theoretical approach

Putting pylons into place: a UK case study of public perspectives on the impacts of high voltage overhead transmission lines

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REMEMBERING PASTS AND REPRESENTING PLACES:THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN IRELAND

Renewable Energy and the Public

Responses to a worsening environment: relative deprivation mediates between place attachments and behaviour

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Rethinking NIMBYism: The role of place attachment and place identity in explaining place-protective action

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Social acceptance of low carbon energy and associated infrastructures: A critical discussion

Social representations of electricity network technologies: exploring processes of anchoring and objectification through the use of visual research methods

scientific article published on 11 September 2008

Societal acceptance of wind farms: Analysis of four common themes across Australian case studies

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The financial entanglements of local energy projects

The role of (de-)essentialisation within siting conflicts: An interdisciplinary approach

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Think global, act local? The relevance of place attachments and place identities in a climate changed world

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Towards a better understanding of people's responses to renewable energy technologies: Insights from Social Representations Theory

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Trust and community: Exploring the meanings, contexts and dynamics of community renewable energy

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Understanding People's Ideas on Natural Resource Management: Research on Social Representations of Nature

Understanding urban green space as a health resource: a qualitative comparison of visit motivation and derived effects among park users in Sheffield, UK.

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Using a narrative approach to understand place attachments and responses to power line proposals: The importance of life-place trajectories

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Varieties of people-place relations and place change: UK electricity transmission grid development

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Visible technologies, invisible organisations: An empirical study of public beliefs about electricity supply networks

‘Domesticating’ low carbon thermal technologies: Diversity, multiplicity and variability in older person, off grid households

“Positive parochialism”, local belonging and ecological concerns: Revisiting Common Ground's Parish Maps project

article by Patrick Devine-Wright et al published 24 December 2018 in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers