This is a cross-disciplinary project exploring the space for public participation during the consenting process for wind energy and carbon capture-and-storage projects.
Project information
Dates: 2012 - 2015
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- Professor听听(UCL Laws)
- Dr听听(UCL Laws)
- Dr听听(UCL Laws and UCL Energy Institute)
- Dr听听(UCL Science & Technology Studies)
- Professor听听(UCL Geography)
- Professor听听(formerly UCL Laws)
- Professor听Yvonne Rydin听(UCL Bartlett School of Planning)
While decision-makers are subject to legal obligations to provide opportunities for public involvement in consenting, an examination of high-level strategic planning policy suggests that in practice, very little will be up for discussion by this stage.
We also identified a certain mistrust of public participation among those making policy on the technological change thought necessary for climate change mitigation. Legally embedded rights to participate, coupled with limited opportunities to influence, create the danger that participation becomes a simple bureaucratic hurdle, frustrating for all concerned.
This project was chaired by Prof听听(UCL Laws) and jointly supported by UCL Public Policy,听听and the听.
Outputs
The project group has produced three articles:
- Public Participation and Climate Change Infrastructure, Journal of Environmental Law (Volume 25, 2012). To request a copy of this publication please email听Prof Lee.
>听Policy briefing - 鈥楴uclear energy sounded wonderful 40 years ago鈥�: UK citizen views on CCS,听Journal of Energy Policy (Volume 66, 2014).
>听Policy briefing - , Journal of Environmental Law听(Volume 27, 2015).听
It held two events:
- A workshop to discuss the findings of the project and possible solutions to help address the problems in public participation, with representatives of the NGO sector in 2012.
>听Policy briefing - A policy seminar as part of the UCL Public Policy events series, on Going Low-Carbon 鈥� the Governance of Climate Change Technologies, in 2011.
>听Policy briefing
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