TY - JOUR
T1 - Why and How Urban Residents Resisted a Proposed Gas-Fired Power Station
AU - Anderson, Carmel
AU - SCHIRMER, Jacki
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - New urban infrastructure including lower-carbon energy facilities are increasingly met with community resistance during the public participation phase of planning. Resistance can confound the implementation of government climate change and energy policies. A qualitative case study using social capital and place-attachment analytical lenses is conducted to build knowledge about the social factors involved in a Canberra community's resistance to a gas-fired power station. Analysis reveals that while social capital explains how resistance occurred, a threatened disruption to place attachment explains why. We conclude that public participation processes informed by community social capital and place attachment characteristics would help developers and planners pre-empt resistance.
AB - New urban infrastructure including lower-carbon energy facilities are increasingly met with community resistance during the public participation phase of planning. Resistance can confound the implementation of government climate change and energy policies. A qualitative case study using social capital and place-attachment analytical lenses is conducted to build knowledge about the social factors involved in a Canberra community's resistance to a gas-fired power station. Analysis reveals that while social capital explains how resistance occurred, a threatened disruption to place attachment explains why. We conclude that public participation processes informed by community social capital and place attachment characteristics would help developers and planners pre-empt resistance.
KW - Community resistance
KW - lower-carbon infrastructure
KW - place attachment
KW - public participation
KW - social capital
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84947494156&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/urban-residents-resisted-proposed-gasfired-power-station
U2 - 10.1080/08111146.2014.982792
DO - 10.1080/08111146.2014.982792
M3 - Article
SN - 1476-7244
VL - 33
SP - 324
EP - 339
JO - Urban Policy and Research
JF - Urban Policy and Research
IS - 3
ER -