A systemic approach to mapping participation with low-carbon energy transitions

Chilvers, Jason ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9238-1653, Bellamy, Rob, Pallett, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5014-6356 and Hargreaves, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3764-7364 (2021) A systemic approach to mapping participation with low-carbon energy transitions. Nature Energy, 6 (3). pp. 250-259. ISSN 2058-7546

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Abstract

Low-carbon transitions demand long-term systemic transformations and meaningful societal engagement. Most approaches to engaging society with energy and climate change fail to address the systemic nature of this challenge, focusing on discrete forms of participation in specific parts of wider systems. Our systemic approach combines comparative case mapping of diverse public engagements across energy systems with participatory distributed deliberative mapping of energy system futures. We show how UK public participation with energy is more diverse than dominant approaches posit. Attending to these more varied models of participation opens up citizen and specialist views, values and visions of sustainable energy transitions, revealing support for more distributed energy system futures that recognize the roles of society. Going beyond narrow, discrete understandings of communication and public engagement towards systemic approaches to mapping participation can provide plural and robust forms of social intelligence needed to govern low-carbon transitions in more socially responsive, just and responsible ways.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Data availability: Data and documentation for all 258 cases in the mapping participation comparative case analysis can be openly accessed at: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13850975. Data and material that support the findings of the DDM study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request after two years from publication of this article..
Uncontrolled Keywords:	electronic, optical and magnetic materials,renewable energy, sustainability and the environment,fuel technology,energy engineering and power technology,sdg 7 - affordable and clean energy,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2500/2504
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	17 Aug 2026 09:17
Last Modified:	17 Aug 2026 09:17
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/104165
DOI:	10.1038/s41560-020-00762-w

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