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Abbreviations
- Attitude:
-
Disposition to evaluate a psychological object – the attitude object –, representing a summary evaluation of this object captured in such attribute dimensions as good–bad, harmful–beneficial, pleasant–unpleasant, and likable–dislikable.
- Attribute:
-
Character ascribed to an attitude object about which an actor may hold a belief (expectancy) and an evaluation (value).
- Collaborative planning:
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Planning with delegated responsibility to stakeholders who engage in interest-based negotiation about a plan or a project.
- Community:
-
A body of people viewed collectively, e.g., the local community surrounding a wind farm location or a community holding a collective interest.
- Discourse:
-
A shared way of apprehending the world; in this case, reflecting how the environment (including wind power implementation) is interpreted and given meaning.
- Framing:
-
The way an issue (or an attribute) is defined and presented by actors – biased by their own perspective – in order to affect the perception of the issue by others: to encourage certain interpretations and to discourage others.
- Innovation:
-
A change of ideas, that becomes manifest in products, processes, or organizations, that are applied successfully in practice.
- Institutions:
-
Existing patterns of behavior, determined by existing societal rules “the rules of the game in a society.”
- Landscape:
-
The part of the environment that is the human habitat as it is perceived and understood through the medium of our perceptions.
- NIMBY:
-
Depreciative interpretation and characterization of opposition to a facility: an attitude of objection to the siting of a facility in the proximity (“backyard”), while by implication raising no such objections to similar developments elsewhere; acronym of “not-in-my-back-yard.”
- Place identity:
-
Human binding to the physical environment at a certain place or area associated concepts: place attachment, sense of place.
- Public acceptance:
-
The degree to which a phenomenon is taken by the general public, the degree to which the phenomenon is liked by individual citizens.
- REFIT:
-
Renewable energy feed-in tariff, a class of financial procurement systems creating a priority market for renewable generated electricity by guaranteed access to the grid with a long-term fixed price per kilowatt-hour.
- RPS:
-
Renewable Portfolio Standards, a class of financial procurement systems based on certificates issued for renewable generated electricity – “green certificates” – with a legal quote for renewables creating a market for trading certificates.
- Smart grid:
-
Power grid consisting of a network of integrated microgrids that can monitor and heal itself.
- Social acceptance:
-
The degree of which a phenomenon (e.g., wind power implementation) is taken by relevant social actors, based on the degree how the phenomenon is (dis-)liked by these actors.
- Socio-technical system:
-
A system be made up of scientific and technological, as well as socioeconomic and organizational components.
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