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EREN研究文章|能源转型中的地方和基础设施：社区关系和环境社会价值的规划

21 Jul 2025 gabriels

The energy transition from predominantly fossil- to non-fossil resources will significantly reshape land use and the built environment, and with it, people’s relationships with place. Particularly during the infrastructure-intensive ‘mid-transition’ period during which fossil and non-fossil energy systems operate simultaneously with overlapping functions, understanding how people adapt to, value, or resent living with these infrastructures can enable value-informed design and planning efforts. Here, we use conventional qualitative coding methods with machine learning validation to investigate survey responses from people in the United States of Amercica and Australia who already share space with large-scale energy production regarding their natural and social environments. We focus on (1) how individuals use measures of environmental quality to describe not just their natural or physical environment, but also their community and (2) how and whether shared natural and social spaces facilitate feelings of well-being and belonging. The goal is to inform consultation and planning for the peak infrastructure mid-transition period. We find a blended understanding of nature and culture, with respondents noting tradeoffs from hosting powerful local industry, but also the value of nature as an antidote to deteriorated or low-quality social spaces. We observe a resistance to change paired with a keen sense of loss of local control such that industry is perceived as an outside force, even when formative for local culture and landscapes. Green spaces and good quality air and water are not just measures of how well the environment is doing, but are also a benchmark people use to describe how well their community is doing. Themes are notably consistent across the communities included in this analysis, diverse in their size, resource endowment and industrial history. This work suggests attention to safeguarding and expanding the shared spaces, institutions and economies that foster strong social ties could improve community outcomes during transition.

文章介绍

Place and infrastructure in the energy transition: planning with community ties and environmental social valueLina Moe and Emily Grubert

通讯作者：

Lina Moe，美国罗格斯大学

期刊介绍

Environmental Research: Energy

Environmental Research: Energy是一本多学科、开放获取的期刊，致力于解决与能源相关的重要挑战，并在影响/未来风险、复原力、环境减缓、环境适应、环境安全和最广泛意义上的解决方案方面进行努力。