Mänguraamat Valikutega seiklus säästva energia valdkonnas

This guide, produced by the Stockholm Environment Institute as part of the ENLARGE project, uses a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' (CYOA) format to educate policymakers and stakeholders on participatory democracy in the sustainable energy sector. It presents realistic, though fictional, scenarios involving a local government's attempt to implement an energy efficiency plan, including the construction of a wind farm and building renovations. The document explores the tensions between technical requirements, political consensus, and citizen engagement, providing strategies to improve social legitimacy, institutional sustainability, and political effectiveness.

• The ENLARGE project identifies three critical dimensions for the success of integrating participatory democracy into existing systems: social legitimacy (public acceptance), institutional sustainability (acceptance by politicians and officials), and political effectiveness (the actual impact on decisions).
• The guide distinguishes between three primary models of citizen engagement in planning: the participatory model (voluntary, less regulated, e.g., open meetings), the deliberative model (highly regulated, focused on deep discussion among a selected group to find constructive solutions), and the hybrid model (combining elements of both).
• Early engagement of citizens in the planning phase (including site selection and technical specifications) can help address the concerns of opposing organizations and reduce boycotts during the implementation phase.
• Late engagement, where citizens are only involved in secondary details after main technical decisions are made, often leads to a loss of social legitimacy and accusations of manipulation or lack of transparency.
• Technical specialists often resist citizen participation due to concerns that laypeople lack the necessary expertise, which may lead to unrealistic proposals or increased project costs.
• To increase social legitimacy when a process is led by politicians, the guide suggests including opposition members in the working group and holding public meetings in various districts to increase transparency.
• The use of professional mediators can help manage conflicts and ensure a balanced process, although it introduces higher costs and may still be viewed with skepticism if the mediators are paid by the local government.
• Group dynamics in deliberative processes can be hindered by 'selective attention' (ignoring information that contradicts one's view) and the 'spiral of silence' (minority views remaining unspoken).
• To counter the spiral of silence and selective attention, mediators can use storytelling to make complex ideas intuitive and ask participants to argue from a perspective opposite to their own.
• In the implementation of energy efficiency policies, financial incentives (tax breaks, easier loans) are generally more understood and accepted by citizens than complex mechanisms like energy consumption rights auctions.
• The use of 'citizen mentors'—residents who have already implemented energy efficiency measures—can increase social legitimacy and reduce the workload of officials by providing peer-to-peer support and guidance.
• Unexpected interventions from higher levels of government (e.g., regional funding programs) can disrupt local participatory processes, creating conflict between the need to wait for new guidelines and the desire to proceed with existing plans.
• The guide suggests that the most effective way to communicate technical constraints and budget limits to citizens is to use clear, simple language and involve external experts or science journalists to translate complex data.

APA

Ravazzi, S., & Pomatto, G. (2018). Mänguraamat Valikutega seiklus säästva energia valdkonnas. Stockholm Environment Institute. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/enlarge-gamebook-est.pdf

Chicago

Ravazzi, Stefania, and Gianfranco Pomatto. Mänguraamat Valikutega seiklus säästva energia valdkonnas. Stockholm Environment Institute, 2018. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/enlarge-gamebook-est.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{ravazzi2018mnguraamat, author = {Ravazzi, Stefania and Pomatto, Gianfranco}, title = {{Mänguraamat Valikutega seiklus säästva energia valdkonnas}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2018}, month = sep, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/enlarge-gamebook-est.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }