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Energy Urbanity and Active Citizen Participation

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Mee, Alan 
Lyes, Madeleine 
Crowe, Philip 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/12974
Date Issued
11 October 2021
Date Available
05T09:37:41Z July 2022
Abstract
This paper poses the question: ‘can energy innovation initiatives in Innovation Playgrounds foster a new ‘energy urbanity’ through active citizen participation in the energy transition?’ The concept of ‘Innovation Playgrounds’ and an accompanying Framework are described and linked to implementation evidence of the EU H2020 positive energy research and innovation project +CityxChange, related to emergent active citizen participation in two cities: Limerick, Ireland and Trondheim, Norway. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate that spatially clustered energy innovation initiatives in urban areas involving active citizen participation contribute to a new ‘energy urbanity’ for the energy transition. The research methods are based on a comparative case study approach and close observation of two case sites, with a focus on the ‘Innovation Playground’ area of each city. The article’s three main conclusions are: that a Framework approach to active citizen participation in energy innovation initiatives in urban areas facilitates new models of active citizen and community participation around energy innovation; emergent active citizen participation in energy innovation initiatives in urban areas suggests a new type of engagement that is information-rich, blended, action-led, citizen-focused, and spatial; and that a new paradigm of ‘energy urbanity’ for the energy transition can be proposed.
Sponsorship
European Commission Horizon 2020
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
MDPI
Journal
Energies
Volume
14
Issue
20
Start Page
1
End Page
20
Copyright (Published Version)
2021 The Authors
Keywords
  • Active citizen partic...

  • Innovation playground...

  • Energy urbanity

DOI
10.3390/en14206515
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1996-1073
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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