Förändringarnas vindar blåser- Vikten av geografisk skala för energiomställningen
(2021) SGEL36 20211Department of Human Geography
- Abstract
- Today’s climate crisis entails a need to change our ways of living, where an important aspect of meeting climate goals is a switch to renewable energy production. This bachelor thesis aims to explore the renewable energy transition, through a qualitative case study of a Swedish municipality in which southern Sweden’s biggest wind power park is being built. The research questions are on which geographical scale different stakeholder’s arguments regarding wind power reside, and how the renewable energy transition can be understood through theory of environmental justice and scale? The research is conducted through 8 semi-structured interviews with different stakeholders who have a connection to wind power in the municipality. An analysis of... (More)
- Today’s climate crisis entails a need to change our ways of living, where an important aspect of meeting climate goals is a switch to renewable energy production. This bachelor thesis aims to explore the renewable energy transition, through a qualitative case study of a Swedish municipality in which southern Sweden’s biggest wind power park is being built. The research questions are on which geographical scale different stakeholder’s arguments regarding wind power reside, and how the renewable energy transition can be understood through theory of environmental justice and scale? The research is conducted through 8 semi-structured interviews with different stakeholders who have a connection to wind power in the municipality. An analysis of the interviews is carried out with the use of the geographical scales local, national and global. The results show that certain conflicts within wind power and sustainability can be explained by stakeholder’s use of different scales of focus or definitions of sustainability. This is discussed through theories of environmental justice and scale. For a truly sustainable transition to renewable energy production, the thesis thus recommends an awareness of who has the power to create scales, the hierarchy of different scales, and how different scales are affected by decisions. The switch to more renewable energy production is urgent, but to ensure it is done in a way that doesn’t negatively affect both citizens and local environment, ideas within environmental justice need to be a starting point of the transition. (Less)
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- author
- Karlsson Nordström, Ella LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SGEL36 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- environmental justice, green on green, wind power, renewable energy transition, scale, Sweden
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9045404
- date added to LUP
- 2021-06-14 08:36:28
- date last changed
- 2021-06-14 08:36:28
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abstract = {{Today’s climate crisis entails a need to change our ways of living, where an important aspect of meeting climate goals is a switch to renewable energy production. This bachelor thesis aims to explore the renewable energy transition, through a qualitative case study of a Swedish municipality in which southern Sweden’s biggest wind power park is being built. The research questions are on which geographical scale different stakeholder’s arguments regarding wind power reside, and how the renewable energy transition can be understood through theory of environmental justice and scale? The research is conducted through 8 semi-structured interviews with different stakeholders who have a connection to wind power in the municipality. An analysis of the interviews is carried out with the use of the geographical scales local, national and global. The results show that certain conflicts within wind power and sustainability can be explained by stakeholder’s use of different scales of focus or definitions of sustainability. This is discussed through theories of environmental justice and scale. For a truly sustainable transition to renewable energy production, the thesis thus recommends an awareness of who has the power to create scales, the hierarchy of different scales, and how different scales are affected by decisions. The switch to more renewable energy production is urgent, but to ensure it is done in a way that doesn’t negatively affect both citizens and local environment, ideas within environmental justice need to be a starting point of the transition.}},
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title = {{Förändringarnas vindar blåser- Vikten av geografisk skala för energiomställningen}},
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