To know is to accept. Uncovering the perception of renewables as a behavioural trigger of rural energy transition

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15310%2F22%3A73618336" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15310/22:73618336 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/mgr-2022-0020" target="_blank" >https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/mgr-2022-0020</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2022-0020" target="_blank" >10.2478/mgr-2022-0020</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

To know is to accept. Uncovering the perception of renewables as a behavioural trigger of rural energy transition

Original language description

Our research aims to reflect on rural communities’ awareness and perceptions of various energy sources, particularly focusing on renewable energies. We argue that there is an urgent need to expand the knowledge base on the perspectives of rural communities directly and indirectly affected by renewable energy installations. From an empirical point of view, our study focuses on the Lipno county in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (Poland), where a relatively unique constellation of renewable energy and local community is emerging. Our findings indicate a wide awareness about renewable energies in the community, but a rather shallow, imbalanced, and outdated knowledge on potentials, advantages and disadvantages of individual locally available renewable energy sources was detected. To break deeply rooted carbon dependency and lock-in and to trigger mechanisms of change leading to more sustainable futures, practical, contextual, and place-based knowledge is essentially needed to shape responsive attitudes. We claim that personal experience of the effects of renewable energy installation (especially small-scale ones) can be a proxy for the change and scaling up. This is a key because it proves the leading role of an inclusive approach to developing renewable energy in rural areas. Locals undertake new energy investments, which is the basis of spatial (territorial) distribution justice – they not only bear the costs of operating new energy installations but also derive tangible benefits from renewables.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

—

OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

—

Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Moravian Geographical Reports

ISSN

1210-8812

e-ISSN

2199-6202

Volume of the periodical

30

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

311-323

UT code for WoS article

000909954100006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85146038089