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GET Engaged: Citizen Engagement and Areas Under Pressure in the Green Energy Transition

GET Engaged: Citizen Engagement and Areas Under Pressure in the Green Energy Transition

What do citizens think about the construction of an ammonium factory in their neighbourhood or a power line through the valley? The research project GET Engaged will help to involve residents in the plans when common areas are to be used for new green energy projects.

If Norway is to achieve its climate goals, the transition to green energy is crucial. But green energy takes up space in the landscape and residents have attitudes towards the use of common areas at sea and on land. Protecting natural areas, or an undisturbed view, can be a challenge if you do not know the value for the residents. The project will, among other things, quantify the monetary value for both users and non-users of the area.

GET Engaged is a research collaboration between 15 municipal partners, the NORCE, and the University of Stavanger on citizen engagement, areas under pressure and the transition to green energy.

The project has been funded with 12 MNOK from the Research Council of Norway and is led by NORCE.

Experience shows that land use can lead to dissatisfaction and conflicts, but the municipalities are obliged to involve citizens in decisions about land use and it is important and necessary to ensure local support.

However, this can be challenging to achieve in practice and the project will test new methods for citizen engagement, in order for the process to be as good as possible.

GET Engaged will

  • examine how citizen engagement is practiced in municipalities today.
  • test new methods to include more citizens and ensure a good outcome of the process.
  • communicate feedback from citizens to decision-makers.
  • measure the value of the areas for citizens and calculate the social loss that comes with the development of greenenergy.
  • examine how compensations offered to affected neighbours affects the experience of social justice.

Contact

Henrik Lindegaard Andersen

Senior Researcher - Haugesund

hean@norceresearch.no
+47 56 10 76 70
+47 92 34 57 00

Project facts

Name

GET Engaged: Citizen Engagement and Areas Under Pressure in the Green Energy Transition

Status

Active

Duration

01.12.24 - 30.11.28

Location

Haugesund

Research group

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NORCE

Project members

Elisabeth Enoksen
Kathrine Skoland
Gorm Kipperberg

Samarbeidspartnere

NORCE, Universitetet i Stavanger

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