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How bottom-up and top-down governance of community energy initiatives affects citizens’ perceptions, acceptability, and willingness to join

Results of three experimental studies and surveys (Ntotal = 3135) conducted in four EU countries show that community members’ involvement, but not external parties’ involvement, in CEI governance promotes perceived efficacy and identity leadership of the CEI, and thereby its acceptability and people’s willingness to join.

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Associate professor Goda Perlavicute begins Embassy Science Fellowship in Paris: “Fellowships are a special way to exchange knowledge”

Associate professor Goda Perlaviciute will spend the next three months in Paris as an Embassy Science Fellow, where she will be working together with the Dutch embassy to better understand France’s policies on public values in climate and energy.

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Environmental psychology myths, debunked: Public participation is a silver bullet for public acceptance

Initial findings show that when citizen assemblies are reflective of the general population and enable citizens to define their values at an early planning stage where their input can genuinely influence outcomes, they can be a promising approach for more engagement with public participation.

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