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Professor Patrick Devine-Wright

Professor in Human Geography

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Amory C358

Amory Building, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ , UK

Office hours:

My office hours are at the following times:

Monday 4-5pm (virtual)

Wednesday 4-5pm (in person)

Overview

Patrick Devine-Wright's research has been ranked in the world's top 1% of social science according to citation of publications in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. With expertise spanning Human Geography and Environmental Psychology, he conducts theoretically-driven research with real-world implications, often in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary settings. Active across local, national and international contexts, he is engaged in efforts to ensure social science insights inform decision making on a range of environmental challenges, notably climate change.

Patrick is Director of the new £6.25m ACCESS (Advancing Capacity in Climate and Environment Social Science) leadership team for environmental social science funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Until 2027, ACCESS will work to increase the co-ordination and visibility of social science research through outreach and close relationships with stakeholders and policy makers across the UK and internationally.

Broad research specialisms:

investigating social and psychological aspects of energy transitions, in particular siting controversies, 'NIMBYism’, public participation and community engagement.
understanding people's relationships with place and landscape, particularly concepts of place attachment and place identity.
understanding how the public are imagined and engaged with by policy makers and industry in relation to energy and environmental problems - for example as users, consumers and citizens.

He was a Lead Author for the IPCC Working Group III in the 6th Asessment Round contributing to a chapter on 'Demand, Services and Social Aspects of Mitigation'. He is Chair of the Devon Net Zero Climate Emergency Task Force and a non-executive Director of Exeter Community Energy. He contributes to the International Energy Agency's Task 28 on Social Acceptance of Wind Energy, has been a member of the National Advisory Group for EirGrid (the Irish electricity grid operator) since 2013 and advises the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland on the Irish Government's Renewable Energy Strategy.

He is a member of the Peer Review Group for the Department for Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy; and was formerly a member of the Social Science Expert Panel advising Defra and DECC. He was an invited member of the National Advisory Group steering the UK Community Renewables Initiative between 2001 and 2006; and acted as Lead Expert to the Office of Science and Technology’s Foresight Project on Sustainable Energy and the Built Environment (2008).

He sits on the board of several academic journals including Global Environmental Change, Energy Research and Social Science, the Journal of Environmental Psychology, and Environment and Behavior. He edited a book on ‘Public Engagement with Renewable Energy: From NIMBY to Participation' published by Earthscan in 2011. A book on 'Place Attachment', co-edited with Prof. Lynne Manzo (University of Washington) won the annual Achievement Award from the US Environmental Design Research Association in 2014, with an updated second edition published in 2021.

Institutional memberships

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

Chartered Environmental Psychologist and member of the British Psychological Society

International Association for People-Environment Studies

Qualifications

BSc Psychology (Trinity College, Dublin),
MSc in Environmental Psychology (Surrey),
PhD in Social Psychology (Surrey)

Research group links

Environment and Sustainability

Research

Research projects

Project Windy Isle, funded by the States of Guernsey Government on Stakeholder and Public Engagement with Offshore Wind Energy

Community Funds, collaborative research with EirGrid, the grid operator in the Republic of Ireland on the distribution of funds to communities affected by the siting of overhead power lines

Previous research grant awards

Engineering Low Carbon Coasts (EPSRC funding, with Dr. Karen Bickerstaff; Dr. Lars Johanning; Dr. Mat White and Prof. Kevin Gaston)

Public acceptance of high voltage power lines (ESRC funded PhD studentship, in collaboration with the National Grid plc., 2013-2016)

Public engagement and acceptance of marine renewable energy: a Guernsey case study (ESRC funded PhD studentship, in collaboration with the Guernsey Government, 2012-2015)

EU-Trace: European Trans-disciplinary Assessment of Climate Engineering (ERC, FP7, 2012-2014)

Sustainable Grid Development: addressing the need to integrate economic, social and environmental concerns (funded by the Norwegian Research Council, 2011-2014)

Conditioning Demand: Older people, diversity and thermal experience (funded by EPSRC and EDF under the People Energy and Buildings Programme (2011-2013)

Challenging Lock-in through Urban Energy Systems (CLUES), funded by EPSRC funder the Sustainable Urban Environments programme (2011-2012)

Supergen FlexNet. (funded by the EPSRC under the Supergen programme, 2007-2012)

Beyond Nimbyism: Towards a multidisciplinary framework for understanding public engagement with renewable energy technologies ESRC/Research Council's Energy Programme, 125k of 500k, 2005-2009, Principle Investigator. This project was evaluated as 'outstanding' in the end of grant peer review by ESRC.

EU Framework 7, ADDRESS (Active distribution networks with full integration of demand and distributed energy resources),
300k of 7 million Euros, 2008-2011, Co-investigator.

Bruntwood Institute for Sustainable Cities,
£650k of £940k, 2007-2010, Co-investigator.

EPSRC, 'FlexNet', renewal of Future Network Technologies project (see below),
£625k of £7m, 2007-2011, Co-investigator.

ESRC, under Towards a Sustainable Energy Economy research programme: "Beyond Nimbyism: Towards a multidisciplinary framework for understanding public engagement with renewable energy technologies".
£135k of £500k, 2005-2009, Principle Investigator.

EPSRC, under Supergen programme: Future Network Technologies.
£255 of £3.5m, 2003-2007, Co-investigator

EPSRC, under Sustainable Urban Environment programme: "City Form".
£400k of £2m, 2003-2007, Co-investigator.

ESRC, under Sustainable Technologies Programme: Harnessing Community Energies: Embedding Sustainable Energy Technologies at the local level.
£80k of £135k, 2004-2006, Co-investigator.

EU 5th Framework: INTUSER: Public attitudes to Energy Resources project funded by EU Framework 5.
£28K, 2002-2004, Co-investigator

EPSRC, under Partnerships for Public Understanding programme: Activity Based Sustainable Energy Futures.
£36K, 2002-2004, Co-investigator

EPSRC responsive mode: Evaluation & Dissemination of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Modelling In UK Local Authorities.
£62K, 2002-2003, Co-investigator

EU LIFE Programme: Making News: Community Sustainable Development Indicators" project.
£26K, 2002-2003, Co-investigator

Research networks

Membership of external committees (including peer review colleges)

Journal Editorial Roles

I am on the Editorial Boards of the following journals: Global Environmental Change, Energy Research and Social Science, Local Environment and Environment and Behaviour. I acted as Guest editor for a special issue of the Journal of Environmental Psychology on Place and Identity in 2009-2010.

Advisory Panel Roles:

Jury Member, Renewables Grid Initiative Best Pratice of the Year awards (2014+)
National Advisory Panel on Community Engagement for EirGrid, the Irish electricity system operator (2013+).
DECC/DEFRA Social Science Expert Panel (2012+).
International Science Panel on Renewable Energy (2005-2008).
National Advisory Group steering the Countryside Agency’s Community Renewables Initiative (2001-2006).
Regional Advisory Group of East Midlands CRI (2002-2005).

Review roles

I am a member of the Peer Review Colleges of the Economic and Social Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. I have acted as an international reviewer of grant applications for funding agencies in the United States, Canada, Ireland, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

I have acted as External Examiner for PhD vivas for the Open University, University of Exeter, Robert Gordon University, Cardiff University, Lancaster University, University of Sheffield, University of Melbourne and the University of South Australia.

Publications

Key publications | Publications by category | Publications by year

Key publications

Cotton M, Devine-Wright P (In Press). Making electricity networks ‘visible’: industry actor constructions of ‘publics’ and public engagement in infrastructure planning. Public Understanding of Science Abstract. Author URL.

Cowell R, Devine-Wright P (2018). A ‘delivery-democracy dilemma’? Mapping and explaining policy change for public engagement with energy infrastructure. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 20(4), 499-517. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P (2013). Explaining ‘NIMBY’ objections to a power line: the role of personal, place attachment and project-related factors. Environment and Behavior, 45, 761-781.

Devine-Wright P (2013). Think global, act local? the relevance of place attachments and place identities in a climate changed world. Global Environmental Change, 23, 61-69. Abstract.

Cotton M, Devine-Wright P (2012). Making electricity networks ‘visible’: industry actor constructions of ‘publics’ and public engagement in infrastructure planning. Public Understanding of Science, 21, 17-35.

Devine-Wright P (2011). Place attachment and public acceptance of renewable energy: a tidal energy case study. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 31, 336-343. Abstract. Author URL.

Publications by category

Books

Devine-Wright P (eds)(2011). Renewable Energy and the Public: from Nimby to Participation. London, UK, Earthscan. Abstract. Author URL.

Devine-Wright P (eds)(2010). Renewable Energy and the Public., Earthscan / James & James. Abstract. Author URL.

Journal articles

Batel SA, Devine-Wright P (In Press). (in press). A critical and empirical analysis of the national-local ‘gap’in public responses to large-scale energy infrastructures. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management Abstract.

Cox D, Hudson H, Plummer K, Siriwardena G, Anderson K, Hancock S, Devine-Wright P, Gaston KJ (In Press). Covariation in urban birds providing cultural services or disservices and people. Journal of Applied Ecology

Devine-Wright P (In Press). Expanding the Role for Psychology in Addressing Environmental Challenges.

Devine-Wright P, Bickerstaff K, Butler C (In Press). Living with low carbon technologies: an agenda for sharing and comparing qualitative energy research. Energy Policy Abstract.

Devine-Wright P (In Press). Local perceptions of opportunities for engagement and procedural justice in electricity transmission grid projects in Norway and the UK.

Goedkoop F, Devine-Wright P (In Press). Partnership or placation? the role of Trust and Justice in the Shared Ownership of Renewable Energy Projects. Energy Research & Social Science. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, Whitmarsh L, Gaterslaben B, O’Neill S, Hartley S, Burningham K, Sovacool B, Barr S, Anable J (In Press). Placing people at the heart of climate action. PLOS Climate

Devine-Wright P (In Press). Psychological Research and Global Climate Change. Nature Climate Change

Bruegger A, Dessai S, Devine-Wright P, Morton TA, Pidgeon N (In Press). Psychological responses to the proximity of climate change. Nature Climate Change

Batel SA, Devine-Wright P (In Press). Towards a better understanding of people's responses to renewable energy technologies: Insights from Social Representations Theory. Public Understanding of Science Abstract.

Ryder S, Walker C, Batel S, Devine-Wright H, Devine-Wright P, Sherry-Brennan F (2023). Do the ends justify the means? Problematizing social acceptance and instrumentally-driven community engagement in proposed energy projects. Socio-Ecological Practice Research Abstract.

Bartie P, Varley A, Dickie J, Evensen D, Devine-Wright P, Ryder S, Whitmarsh L, Foad C (2023). Great Britain's spatial twitter activity related to ‘fracking’. Computers Environment and Urban Systems, 103

Evensen D, Whitmarsh L, Devine-Wright P, Dickie J, Bartie P, Foad C, Bradshaw M, Ryder S, Mayer A, Varley A, et al (2023). Growing importance of climate change beliefs for attitudes towards gas. Nature Climate Change, 13(3), 240-243.

Gooding L, Devine-Wright P, Rohse M, Ford R, Walker C, Soutar I, Devine-Wright H (2023). The best-laid plans: Tracing public engagement change in emergent Smart Local Energy Systems. Energy Research & Social Science, 101

Soutar I, Devine-Wright P, Rohse M, Walker C, Gooding L, Devine-Wright H, Kay I (2022). Constructing practices of engagement with users and communities: Comparing emergent state-led smart local energy systems. Energy Policy, 171, 113279-113279.

Devine-Wright P (2022). Decarbonisation of industrial clusters: a place-based research agenda. Energy Research and Social Science, 91 Abstract.

Evensen D, Varley A, Whitmarsh L, Devine-Wright P, Dickie J, Bartie P, Napier H, Mosca I, Foad C, Ryder S, et al (2022). Effect of linguistic framing and information provision on attitudes towards induced seismicity and seismicity regulation. Scientific Reports, 12(1).

Ryder SS, Devine-Wright P (2022). Environmental justice implications and conceptual advancements: community experiences of proposed shale gas exploration in the UK. Environmental Politics, 31(7), 1161-1181. Abstract.

Bradshaw M, Devine-Wright P, Evensen D, King O, Martin A, Ryder S, Short D, Sovacool BK, Stretesky P, Szolucha A, et al (2022). ‘We're going all out for shale:’ explaining shale gas energy policy failure in the United Kingdom. Energy Policy, 168, 113132-113132.

Roux J-P, Fitch-Roy O, Devine-Wright P, Ellis G (2022). “We could have been leaders”: the rise and fall of offshore wind energy on the political agenda in Ireland. Energy Research & Social Science, 92, 102762-102762.

Itten A, Sherry-Brennan F, Hoppe T, Sundaram A, Devine-Wright P (2021). Co-creation as a social process for unlocking sustainable heating transitions in Europe. Energy Research and Social Science, 74 Abstract.

Sandover R, Moseley A, Devine-Wright P (2021). Contrasting Views of Citizens’ Assemblies: Stakeholder Perceptions of Public Deliberation on Climate Change. Politics and Governance, 9(2), 76-86.

It has been argued that a ‘new climate politics’ has emerged in recent years, in the wake of global climate change protest movements. One part of the new climate politics entails experimentation with citizen-centric input into policy development, via mechanisms of deliberative democracy such as citizens’ assemblies. Yet relatively little is known about the motivations and aspirations of those commissioning climate assemblies or about general public perceptions of these institutions. Addressing these issues is important for increasing understanding of what these deliberative mechanisms represent in the context of climate change, how legitimate, credible and useful they are perceived to be by those involved, and whether they represent a radical way of doing politics differently or a more incremental change. This article addresses these gaps by presenting findings from mixed method research on prior expectations of the Devon Climate Assembly, proposed following the declaration of a climate emergency in 2019. The research compares and contrasts the views of those commissioning and administering the citizens’ assembly, with those of the wider public. Findings indicate widespread support, yet also considerable risk and uncertainty associated with holding the assembly. Enabling input into policy of a broad array of public voices was seen as necessary for effective climate response, yet there was scepticism about the practical challenges involved in ensuring citizen representation, and about whether politicians, and society more generally, would embrace the ‘hard choices’ required. The assembly was diversely represented as a means to unlock structural change, and as an instrumental tool to achieve behaviour change at scale. The Devon Climate Assembly appears to indicate ‘cautious experimentation’ where democratic innovation is widely embraced yet carefully constrained, offering only a modest example of a ‘new climate politics,’ with minimal challenges to the authority of existing institutions.

Abstract.

Evensen D, Whitmarsh L, Bartie P, Devine-Wright P, Dickie J, Varley A, Ryder S, Mayer A (2021). Effect of “finite pool of worry” and COVID-19 on UK climate change perceptions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(3). Abstract.

Bailey E, Devine‐Wright P, Batel S (2021). Emplacing linked lives: a qualitative approach to understanding the co‐evolution of residential mobility and place attachment formation over time. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 31(5), 515-529.

Devine-Wright P, Ryder S, Dickie J, Evensen D, Varley A, Whitmarsh L, Bartie P (2021). Induced seismicity or political ploy?: Using a novel mix of methods to identify multiple publics and track responses over time to shale gas policy change. Energy Research and Social Science, 81 Abstract.

Chateau Z, Devine-Wright P, Wills J (2021). Integrating sociotechnical and spatial imaginaries in researching energy futures. Energy Research and Social Science, 80 Abstract.

Kallis G, Stephanides P, Bailey E, Devine-Wright P, Chalvatzis K, Bailey I (2021). The challenges of engaging island communities: Lessons on renewable energy from a review of 17 case studies. Energy Research and Social Science, 81 Abstract.

Walker C, Devine-Wright P, Rohse M, Gooding L, Devine-Wright H, Gupta R (2021). What is ‘local’ about Smart Local Energy Systems? Emerging stakeholder geographies of decentralised energy in the United Kingdom. Energy Research & Social Science, 80, 102182-102182.

Baxter J, Walker C, Ellis G, Devine-Wright P, Adams M, Fullerton RS (2020). Scale, history and justice in community wind energy: an empirical review. Energy Research & Social Science, 68, 101532-101532.

Devine-Wright P, Wiersma B (2020). Understanding community acceptance of a potential offshore wind energy project in different locations: an island-based analysis of ‘place-technology fit’. Energy Policy, 137 Abstract.

Batel S, Devine-Wright P (2020). Using NIMBY rhetoric as a political resource to negotiate responses to local energy infrastructure: a power line case study. Local Environment, 25(5), 338-350. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, Pinto de Carvalho L, Di Masso A, Lewicka M, Manzo L, Williams DR (2020). “Re-placed” - Reconsidering relationships with place and lessons from a pandemic. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 72, 101514-101514.

Devine-Wright P (2019). Between fixities and flows: Navigating place attachments in an increasingly mobile world. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 61, 125-133.

Creamer E, Taylor Aiken G, van Veelen B, Walker G, Devine-Wright P (2019). Community renewable energy: What does it do? Walker and Devine-Wright (2008) ten years on. Energy Research & Social Science, 57, 101223-101223.

Devine-Wright P (2019). Community versus local energy in a context of climate emergency. Nature Energy, 4(11), 894-896.

Brown K, Adger WN, Devine-Wright P, Anderies JM, Barr S, Bousquet F, Butler C, Evans L, Marshall N, Quinn T, et al (2019). Empathy, place and identity interactions for sustainability. Global Environmental Change, 56, 11-17. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, Sherry-Brennan F (2019). Where do you draw the line? Legitimacy and fairness in constructing community benefit fund boundaries for energy infrastructure projects. Energy Research and Social Science, 54, 166-175.

Devine-Wright P, Smith J, Batel S (2019). “Positive parochialism”, local belonging and ecological concerns: Revisiting Common Ground's Parish Maps project. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44(2), 407-421. Abstract.

Perlaviciute G, Schuitema G, Devine-Wright P, Ram B (2018). At the heart of a sustainable energy transition: the public acceptability of energy projects. IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, 16(1), 49-55. Abstract.

Batel S, Devine-Wright P (2018). Populism, identities and responses to energy infrastructures at different scales in the United Kingdom: a post-Brexit reflection. Energy Research and Social Science, 43, 41-47. Abstract.

Bauwens T, Devine-Wright P (2018). Positive energies? an empirical study of community energy participation and attitudes to renewable energy. Energy Policy, 118, 612-625. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, Batel S, Aas O, Sovacool B, LaBelle MC, Ruud A (2017). A conceptual framework for understanding the social acceptance of energy infrastructure: Insights from energy storage. Energy Policy, 107, 27-31. Abstract.

Batel S, Devine-Wright P (2017). Energy Colonialism and the Role of the Global in Local Responses to New Energy Infrastructures in the UK: a Critical and Exploratory Empirical Analysis. Antipode, 49(1), 3-22. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, Batel S (2017). My neighbourhood, my country or my planet? the influence of multiple place attachments and climate change concern on social acceptance of energy infrastructure. Global Environmental Change, 47, 110-120. Abstract.

Clayton S, Carrico A, Steg L, Swim JK, Bonnes M, Devine-Wright P (2017). Psychologists and the problem of population growth: Reply to Bridgeman (2017). American Psychologist, 72(4), 388-389. Abstract.

Batel S, Castro P, Devine-Wright P, Howarth C (2016). Developing a critical agenda to understand pro-environmental actions: contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 7(5), 727-745. Abstract.

Batel S, Castro P, Devine‐Wright P, Howarth C (2016). Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories. WIREs Climate Change, 7(6), 932-932.

Bailey E, Devine-Wright P, Batel S (2016). Understanding responses to a uk high-voltage powerline proposal: the role of place and project-based social representations. Papers on Social Representations, 25(1), 2.1-2.24.

In going beyond the NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) concept, Devine-Wright (2009) posited a place-based approach highlighting the role of social representations of place for understanding responses to energy infrastructure projects. Existing studies (Devine- Wright & Howes, 2010; Anderson, 2013) have investigated the ways in which representations of diverse forms of place change are anchored and objectified symbolically based on existing social representations of place. These studies have shown that the degree of fit between representations of place and proposed place change can be seen to inform community responses to different developments. There is however, a dearth of research investigating the symbolic fit of power line projects amongst existing representations of the English countryside, despite the fact that such projects are both highly controversial and key to ensuring delivery of low-carbon energy policy targets. This paper thus sought to explore social representations of a proposed power line development in Southwest England and their symbolic fit with representations of nearby countryside areas, given the increased deployment of lowcarbon energy infrastructure in this locale. Five focus groups were conducted with residents of a town in North Somerset, to highlight residents' co-constructed place and project-based social representations. Findings from thematic data analysis suggest that those representing the nearby countryside as replete with existing grid infrastructure objectified the power line proposal as an acceptable and 'familiar' form of place change. Conversely, those representing the countryside as 'natural' tended to objectify the proposal as industrialising this locale, objecting to it on this basis. This study reveals the utility of adopting Social Representations Theory to understand responses to proposed energy infrastructure developments given the UK low carbon transition, and suggests that grid companies could enhance acceptance by seeking to minimise the 'industrial' nature of such projects.

Abstract.

Bailey E, Devine-Wright P, Batel S (2016). Using a narrative approach to understand place attachments and responses to power line proposals: the importance of life-place trajectories. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 48, 200-211. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P (2015). Local attachments and identities. Progress in Human Geography, 39(4), 527-530.

Devine-Wright P, Price J, Leviston Z (2015). My country or my planet? Exploring the influence of multiple place attachments and ideological beliefs upon climate change attitudes and opinions. Global Environmental Change, 30, 68-79. Abstract.

Walker I, Leviston Z, Price J, Devine-Wright P (2015). Responses to a worsening environment: relative deprivation mediates between place attachments and behaviour. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 45(7), 833-846. Author URL.

Rydin Y, Guy S, Goodier C, Chmutina K, Devine-Wright P, Wiersma B (2015). The financial entanglements of local energy projects. Geoforum, 59, 1-11. Abstract.

Batel S, Devine-Wright P, Wold L, Egeland H, Jacobsen G, Aas O (2015). The role of (de-)essentialisation within siting conflicts: an interdisciplinary approach. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 44, 149-159.

Wrapson W, Devine-Wright P (2014). 'Domesticating' low carbon thermal technologies: Diversity, multiplicity and variability in older person, off grid households. Energy Policy, 67, 807-817. Abstract.

Chmutina K, Wiersma B, Goodier CI, Devine-Wright P (2014). Concern or compliance? Drivers of urban decentralised energy initiatives. Sustainable Cities and Society, 10, 122-129. Abstract.

Wiersma B, Devine-Wright P (2014). Decentralising energy: comparing the drivers and influencers of projects led by public, private, community and third sector actors. Contemporary Social Science, 9(4), 456-470. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, Wrapson W, Henshaw V, Guy S (2014). Low carbon heating and older adults: Comfort, cosiness and glow. Building Research and Information, 42(3), 288-299. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P (2014). Planning and Place in the City: Mapping Place Identity, Marichela Sepe. International Development Planning Review, 36(4), 509-511.

Aas Ø, Devine-Wright P, Tangeland T, Batel S, Ruud A (2014). Public beliefs about high-voltage powerlines in Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom: a comparative survey. Energy Research and Social Science, 2, 30-37. Abstract.

Wiersma B, Devine-Wright P (2014). Public engagement with offshore renewable energy: a critical review. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE, 5(4), 493-507. Author URL.

Devine-Wright P, Batel S (2013). Explaining public preferences for high voltage power lines: an empirical study of perceived fit in a rural landscape. Land Use Policy, 31, 640-649.

Devine-Wright P, Batel S (2013). Explaining public preferences for high voltage pylon designs: an empirical study of perceived fit in a rural landscape. Land Use Policy, 31, 640-649. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P (2013). Explaining ‘NIMBY’ objections to a power line: the role of personal, place attachment and project-related factors. Environment and Behavior, 45, 761-781.

Devine-Wright P, Wiersma B (2013). Opening up the "local" to analysis: Exploring the spatiality of UK urban decentralised energy initiatives. Local Environment, 18(10), 1099-1116. Abstract.

Cotton M, Devine-Wright P (2013). Putting pylons into place: a UK case study of public perspectives on the impacts of high voltage overhead transmission lines. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 56(8), 1225-1245. Abstract.

Batel S, Devine-Wright P, Tangeland T (2013). Social acceptance of low carbon energy and associated infrastructures: a critical discussion. Energy Policy, 58, 1-5. Abstract.

Hall N, Ashworth P, Devine-Wright P (2013). Societal acceptance of wind farms: Analysis of four common themes across Australian case studies. Energy Policy, 58, 200-208. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P (2013). Think global, act local? the relevance of place attachments and place identities in a climate changed world. Global Environmental Change, 23, 61-69. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P (2013). Understanding NIMBYism. International Water Power and Dam Construction, 65(5), 38-40. Abstract.

Irvine KN, Warber SL, Devine-Wright P, Gaston KJ (2013). Understanding Urban Green Space as a Health Resource: a Qualitative Comparison of Visit Motivation and Derived Effects among Park Users in Sheffield, UK. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 10(1), 417-442. Author URL.

Bailey E, Devine-Wright P (2013). Varieties of people-place relations and place change: UK electricity transmission grid development. ESTUDIOS DE PSICOLOGIA, 34(3), 335-338. Author URL.

Barr S, Devine-Wright P (2012). Resilient Communities: sustainabilities in transition. Local Environment, 17, 525-532.

Barr SW, Devine-Wright P (2012). Resilient Communities: transforming sustainabilities. Local Environment, 17(5), 525-532.

Buijs A, Hovardas T, Figari H, Castro P, Devine-Wright P, Fischer A, Mouro C, Selge S (2012). Understanding People's Ideas on Natural Resource Management: Research on Social Representations of Nature. Society and Natural Resources, 25(11), 1167-1181. Abstract.

Cotton M, Devine-Wright P (2011). Discourses of energy infrastructure development: a Q-method study of electricity transmission line siting in the UK. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE, 43(4), 942-960. Author URL.

Cotton M, Devine-Wright P (2011). Discourses of energy infrastructure development: a Q-method study of electricity transmission line siting in the UK. Environment and Planning A, 4(43), 942-960. Abstract. Author URL.

Devine-Wright P (2011). Enhancing local distinctiveness fosters public acceptance of tidal energy: a UK case study. Energy Policy(39), 83-93. Abstract. Author URL.

Devine-Wright P (2011). Place attachment and public acceptance of renewable energy: a tidal energy case study. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 31, 336-343. Abstract. Author URL.

Devine-Wright P (2011). Public engagement with large-scale renewable energy technologies: breaking the cycle of NIMBYism. WIRES CLIM CHANGE, 2(1), 19-26. Abstract. Author URL.

Devine-Wright P (2011). Public engagement with large-scale renewable energy: breaking the NIMBY cycle. WIREs Clim Change(2), 19-26. Author URL.

Rydin Y, Devine-Wright P, Goodier C, Guy S, Hunt L, Watson J (2010). Briefing: Challenging lock-in through urban energy systems. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Urban Design and Planning, 163(4), 149-151. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, Heath Y (2010). Disruption to place attachment and the protection of restorative environments: a wind energy case study. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30 Abstract.

Cass N, Walker G, Devine-Wright P (2010). Good Neighbours, Public Relations and Bribes: the Politics and Perceptions of Community Benefit Provision in Renewable Energy Development in the UK. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY & PLANNING, 12(3), 255-275. Author URL.

Devine-Wright P, Clayton S (2010). Introduction to the special issue: Place, identity and environmental behaviour. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 30(3), 267-270. Author URL.

Sherry-Brennan F, Devine-Wright H, Devine-Wright P (2010). Public Understanding of Hydrogen: a theoretical approach. Energy Policy(38), 5311-5319. Abstract.

Walker G, Devine-Wright P, Hunter S, High H, Evans B (2010). Trust and community: exploring the meanings, contexts and dynamics of community renewable energy. Energy Policy, 2655-2663. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, Devine-Wright H, Brennan FS (2010). Visible technologies, invisible organizations: an empirical study of public beliefs about electricity supply networks. Energy Policy, 4127-4134. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, Sutton J (2009). An energetic approach. PSYCHOLOGIST, 22(2), 116-117. Author URL.

Agyeman J, Devine-Wright P, Prange J (2009). Close to the edge, down by the river? Joining up managed retreat and place attachment in a climate changed world. ENVIRON PLANN A, 41(3), 509-513. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, Irvine K, Payne S, Fuller R, Painter B, Gaston K (2009). Green space, soundscape and urban sustainability: an interdisciplinary,empirical study. Local Environment, 14(2), 155-172. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, Devine-Wright H (2009). Public engagement with community-based energy service provision: an exploratory case study. Energy and Environment, 20(3), 303-317. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P (2009). Rethinking NIMBYism: the Role of Place Attachment and Place Identity in Explaining Place-protective Action. J COMMUNITY APPL SOC, 19(6), 426-441. Abstract.

Devine-Wright H, Devine-Wright P (2009). Social representations of electricity network technologies: exploring processes of anchoring and objectification through the use of visual research methods. Br J Soc Psychol, 48(Pt 2), 357-373. Abstract.

Walker G, Devine-Wright P (2008). Community renewable energy: What should it mean?. ENERGY POLICY, 36(2), 497-500. Author URL.

Wall R, Devine-Wright P, Mill GA (2008). Interactions between perceived behavioral control and personal-normative motives - Qualitative and quantitative evidence from a study of commuting-mode choice. JOURNAL OF MIXED METHODS RESEARCH, 2(1), 63-86. Author URL.

Wall R, Devine-Wright P, Mill GA (2007). Comparing and combining theories to explain proenvironmental intentions - the case of commuting-mode choice. ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOR, 39(6), 731-753. Author URL.

Walker G, Hunter S, Devine-Wright P, Evans B, Fay H (2007). Harnessing community energies: Explaining and evaluating community-based localism in renewable energy policy in the UK. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, 7(2), 64-+. Author URL.

Fuller RA, Irvine KN, Devine-Wright P, Warren PH, Gaston KJ (2007). Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity. Biol Lett, 3(4), 390-394. Abstract. Author URL.

Devine-Wright P, Devine-Wright H (2006). Social representations of intermittency and the shaping of public support for wind energy in the UK. International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 25(3-4), 243-256. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P (2005). Beyond NIMBYism: Towards an integrated framework for understanding public perceptions of wind energy. Wind Energy, 8(2), 125-139. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P (2005). Local aspects of UK renewable energy development: Exploring public beliefs and policy implications. Local Environment, 10(1), 57-69. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, Devine-Wright H, Fleming P (2004). Situational influences upon children's beliefs about global warming and energy. Environmental Education Research, 10(4), 493-506. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P (2002). A sociology of energy, buildings and the environment: constructing knowledge, designing practice. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 22(4), 415-417. Author URL.

Devine-Wright P (2001). History and Identity in Northern Ireland: an Exploratory Investigation of the Role of Historical Commemorations in Contexts of Intergroup Conflict. Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology, 7(4), 297-315.

Devine-Wright P (2001). Identity, memory and the social status of groups in Northern Ireland: Relating processes of social remembering with beliefs about the structure of society. Irish Journal of Psychology, 22(2), 1-21. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, Fleming PD, Chadwick H (2001). Role of social capital in advancing regional sustainable development. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 19(2), 161-167. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, Lyons E (1997). Remembering pasts and representing places: the construction of national identities in Ireland. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 17(1), 33-45. Abstract.

Chapters

Walker C, Ryder S, Roux J-P, Chateau Z, Devine-Wright P (2023). Chapter 34 Contested scales of democratic decision-making and procedural justice in energy transitions. In (Ed) Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures, 317-326.

Walker C, Ryder S, Roux JP, Chateau Z, Devine-Wright P (2022). Contested scales of democratic decision-making and procedural justice in energy transitions. In (Ed) Energy Democracies for Sustainable futures, 317-326. Abstract.

Sherry-Brennan F, Devine-Wright P, Walker C (2022). Urban energy infrastructure transitions the participation of local citizens in the development of smart local energy systems and sustainable heating. In (Ed) Routledge Handbook of Urban Landscape Research, 252-264.

Devine-Wright P, Wiersma B (2021). Auto-Photography, Senses of Place and Public Support for Marine Renewable Energy. In (Ed) Changing Senses of Place, 144-155.

Manzo LC, Williams DR, Raymond CM, Masso AD, von Wirth T, Devine-Wright P (2021). Navigating the Spaciousness of Uncertainties Posed by Global Challenges. In (Ed) Changing Senses of Place, 331-347.

Batel S, Devine-Wright P (2021). Using a Critical Approach to Unpack the Visual-Spatial Impacts of Energy Infrastructures. In (Ed) A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures, 43-60.

Manzo LC, Devine-Wright P (2020). Introduction. In (Ed) Place Attachment, 1-10.

Devine-Wright P (2020). Place attachment. In (Ed) The Routledge Handbook of Place, 506-517.

Devine-Wright P (2018). Environmental Psychology. In Castree N, Hulme M, Longhurst (Eds.) Companion to Environmental Studies, Routledge. Abstract.

Manzo LC, Devine-Wright P (2018). Place attachment. In (Ed) Environmental Psychology: an Introduction, 135-143. Abstract.

Colton J, Conway F, Wiersma B, Carlson J, Devine-Wright P (2017). Consultation in ocean energy development. In (Ed) Ocean Energy: Governance Challenges for Wave and Tidal Stream Technologies, 205-228.

Devine‐Wright P (2017). Environment, Democracy, and Public Participation. In (Ed) International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology, 1-10.

Devine-Wright P, Cotton M (2017). Experiencing citizen deliberation over energy infrastructure siting. In (Ed) The Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies, 184-199.

Fleming P, Webber P, Chadwick H, Devine-Wright P (2017). Greenhouse Gas inventory. In (Ed) Changing by Degrees: the Potential Impacts of Climate Change in the East Midlands, 185-219.

Bickerstaff K, Johnstone P (2017). The re-scaling of energy politics: UK nuclear facility siting in historical context. In (Ed) The Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies, 139-152.

Lenoir-Improta R, Devine-Wright P, Pinheiro JQ, Schweizer-Ries P (2016). Energy Issues: Psychological Aspects. In (Ed) Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research, 543-557.

Devine-Wright P (2015). Public Engagement with Large-Scale Renewable Energy Technologies: Breaking the Cycle of NIMBYism. In (Ed) Wind Resources and Future Energy Security, 265-280.

Devine-Wright P (2014). Conclusions. In (Ed) Renewable Energy and the Public: from NIMBY to Participation, 317-321.

Cotton M, Devine-Wright P (2014). NIMBYism and community consultation in electricity transmission network planning. In (Ed) Renewable Energy and the Public: from NIMBY to Participation, 115-128.

Devine-Wright P (2014). Public engagement with renewable energy: Introduction. In (Ed) Renewable Energy and the Public: from NIMBY to Participation, xxi-xxx.

Sherry-Brennan F, Devine-Wright P, Devine-Wright H (2014). Public engagement with wind-hydrogen technology: a comparative study. In (Ed) Renewable Energy and the Public: from NIMBY to Participation, 261-274.

Walker G, Devine-Wright P, Barnett J, Burningham K, Cass N, Devine-Wright H, Speller G, Barton J, Evans B, Heath Y, et al (2014). Symmetries, expectations, dynamics and contexts: a framework for understanding public engagement with renewable energy projects. In (Ed) Renewable Energy and the Public: from NIMBY to Participation, 1-14.

Devine-Wright P (2013). Dynamics of place attachment in a climate changed world. In (Ed) Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications, 165-177.

Taji-Farouki S (2013). Introduction. In (Ed) The Qur'an and its readers in the twentieth century. Qur'an interpretation and translation in global perspective, Oxford: OUP.

Warber S, Irvine K, Devine-Wright P, Gaston K (2013). Modelling well-being and the relationship between individuals and their environments. In (Ed) Landscape, Well-Being and Environment, 20-37.

Devine-Wright P (2013). Place attachment and the social acceptance or renewable energy technologies. In (Ed) Psychological Approaches to Sustainability: Current Trends in Theory, Research and Applications, 337-359. Abstract.

Sherry-Brennan F, Devine-Wright P, Devine-Wright H (2013). Public engagement with wind-hydrogen technology: a comparative study. In (Ed) Renewable Energy and the Public: from NIMBY to Participation, 261-274.

Watson J, Devine-Wright P (2012). Centralization, decentralization and the scales in between: What role might they play in the uk energy system?. In (Ed) The Future of Electricity Demand: Customers, Citizens and Loads, 280-297. Abstract.

Torriti J, Leach M, Devine-Wright P (2012). Demand-side participation: Price constraints, technical limits and behavioural risks. In (Ed) The Future of Electricity Demand: Customers, Citizens and Loads, 88-105. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P (2012). Fostering Public Engagement in Wind Energy Development: the Role of Intermediaries and Community Benefits. In (Ed) Learning from Wind Power, 194-214.

Devine-Wright P (2011). From backyards to places: Public engagement and the emplacement of renewable energy technologies. In (Ed) Renewable Energy and the Public: from NIMBY to Participation, London: Earthscan, 57-70.

Devine-Wright P (2010). Place attachment and the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies. In (Ed) Psychological Approaches to Sustainability: Current Trends in Theory, Research and Applications, 337-360. Abstract.

Irvine KN, Fuller RA, Devine-Wright P, Tratalos J, Payne SR, Warren PH, Lomas KJ, Gaston KJ (2008). Ecological and Psychological Value of Urban Green Space. In (Ed) Sustainable City Form, 215-237.

Devine-Wright P (2008). Reconsidering public acceptance of renewable energy technologies: a critical review. In Grubb M, Jamasb T, Pollitt M (Eds.) Delivering a Low Carbon Electricity System: Technologies, Economics and Policy, Cambridge University Press, 443-461.

Devine-Wright P (2007). Energy citizenship: psychological aspects of evolution in sustainable energy technologies. In (Ed) Framing the Present, Shaping the Future: Contemporary Governance of Sustainable Technologies, Earthscan, 63-86.

Sherry-Brennan F, Devine-Wright H, Devine-Wright P (2007). Social Representations of Hydrogen Technologies: a Community-Owned Wind-Hydrogen Project. In (Ed) Risk and the Public Acceptance of New Technologies, 154-174.

Sherry-Brennan F, Devine-Wright H, Devine-Wright P (2007). Social representations of hydrogen technologies: a community-owned wind-hydrogen project. In (Ed) Risk and the Public Acceptance of New Technologies, 154-174.

Conferences

Payne SR, Devine-Wright P, Irvine KN (2007). People's perceptions and classifications of sounds heard in urban parks: Semantics, affect and restoration. Abstract.

Devine-Wright H, Leach M, Johnstone CM, Devine-Wright P (2005). Integrating multidisciplinary perspectives on demand side participation for future power systems. 2005 International Conference on Future Power Systems.

Devine-Wright H, Leach M, Johnstone CM, Devine-Wright P (2005). Integrating multidisciplinary perspectives on demand side participation for future power systems. Abstract.

Wall R, Devine-Wright P, Mill GA (2005). Psychological predictors in context: an empirical study of interactions between determinants of car use intentions. Author URL.

Devine-Wright P (2004). Towards zero-carbon: Citizenship, responsibility and the public acceptability of sustainable energy technologies. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, McAlpine G, Batley-White S (2001). Wind turbines in the landscape: an evaluation of local community involvement and other considerations in UK wind farm development. Author URL.

Reports

Matthew GS, Fitch-Roy OWF, Connor PM, Woodman B, Thies P, Hussain E, Mahmood H, Abusara M, Yan X, Hardwick J, et al (2018). ICE report T2.1.2 - ICE general methodology. INTERREG, Penryn, UK, University of Exeter.

Devine-Wright P, Rydin Y, Guy S, Hunt L, Walker L, Watson J, Loughead J, Ince M (2009). Powering our Lives: Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment (2009). Final Project Report. London. Government Office for Science. Author URL.

Publications by year

In Press

Devine-Wright P (In Press). Expanding the Role for Psychology in Addressing Environmental Challenges.

Devine-Wright P, Bickerstaff K, Butler C (In Press). Living with low carbon technologies: an agenda for sharing and comparing qualitative energy research. Energy Policy Abstract.

Devine-Wright P (In Press). Local perceptions of opportunities for engagement and procedural justice in electricity transmission grid projects in Norway and the UK.

Goedkoop F, Devine-Wright P (In Press). Partnership or placation? the role of Trust and Justice in the Shared Ownership of Renewable Energy Projects. Energy Research & Social Science. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P, Whitmarsh L, Gaterslaben B, O’Neill S, Hartley S, Burningham K, Sovacool B, Barr S, Anable J (In Press). Placing people at the heart of climate action. PLOS Climate

Devine-Wright P (In Press). Psychological Research and Global Climate Change. Nature Climate Change

Bruegger A, Dessai S, Devine-Wright P, Morton TA, Pidgeon N (In Press). Psychological responses to the proximity of climate change. Nature Climate Change

2023

2022

Devine-Wright P (2022). Decarbonisation of industrial clusters: a place-based research agenda. Energy Research and Social Science, 91 Abstract.

Queen C (2022). Investigating public disengagement from planning for major infrastructure projects: a high voltage powerline case study.

Public disengagement from consultation is a real-world problem affecting areas of the public sphere, such as land use planning, where democracy is a key requirement. The ethos of engaging the public in decision-making has long been accepted as an important objective in the UK planning system in order to protect and serve the public interest. However, there is limited research into why the public frequently appear to disengage from the consultation process for major engineering projects such as energy infrastructure. Public disengagement can result in a lack of representation and legitimate speech in the discourse of decision-making and my research challenges the effectiveness of the current system.
Drawing on human geography, planning theory, sociology and my professional experience of working as an Environmental Planner on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, the research moves away from the current perceptions of an instrumental approach to public consultation for infrastructure. A novel approach to conceptualising disengagement is proposed through a Bourdieusian lens, which could enable a deeper understanding of the reasons for both voluntary and involuntary disengagement. By introducing a place dimension to the conceptual framework, the research is better able to understand the cognitive, affective and behavioural dimensions that reflect the ways in which communities of place choose to engage with, or disengage from, the public consultation process for infrastructure.
The research contributes conceptually, methodologically and empirically to addressing the research problem through a high voltage overhead powerline case study research design in Cumbria. Primary data has been collected through semi-structured interviews, participant observation and event ethnography. Secondary data, including local media, project documents, planning policy and best practice guidance, was also collected for contextual purposes. Qualitative methods allowed greater flexibility without a dependence on language, literacy or assumptions based on cultural norms and thematic analysis was selected as the method of analysis due to its accessibility and theoretically flexible approach to analysis which could be used with a case study research design. The credibility of the analysis was established through data collection triangulation using the secondary data to verify the emerging themes.
The primary contribution to knowledge from this research has been to expand the understanding of disengagement, using the novel conceptual approach that combines the Bourdieusian conceptual framework with aspects of place, and which also has policy and practice implications. Factors affecting engagement in the case study include an underlying thread of symbolic violence and perceptions of stigma which have been shown to be partly place-based and partly resulting from community experiences of legacy planning applications for energy. There are also underlying factors of marginalisation and peripherality, with small communities frequently perceived to be without power or voice in the process. An examination of the relationship between habitus and place has suggested that disengagement can be explained by both communities of practice and of place and an analysis of the public’s relationship with place through the varieties of people-place relations can bring additional insight to understanding the problem.
The empirical output of the research includes a Typology of Engagement which disrupts the existing binary approach to engagement and disengagement. The typology incorporates degrees of engagement and, more significantly, degrees of disengagement which, once identified, can be used to inform public engagement strategies, taking into account the wider characteristics of locally affected publics.
The findings of the case study offer a new understanding of aspects of disengagement and the findings support the argument that the conceptual approach of a Bourdieusian toolkit combined with a place dimension, can help to better understand the factors leading to disengagement. This opens up new opportunities for research in areas beyond planning, such as climate change, where public engagement could be key to the implementation of future adaptation strategies.

Abstract.

Soutar I, Devine-Wright P, Rohse M, Walker C, Gooding L, Devine-Wright H, Kay I (2022). Submission of Paper to Energy Policy: “Constructing Practices of Engagement with Users and Communities: Comparing Emergent State-Led Smart Local Energy Systems”.

2021

Devine-Wright P, Wiersma B (2021). Auto-Photography, Senses of Place and Public Support for Marine Renewable Energy. In (Ed) Changing Senses of Place, 144-155.

Abstract.

Chateau Z, Devine-Wright P, Wills J (2021). Integrating sociotechnical and spatial imaginaries in researching energy futures. Energy Research and Social Science, 80 Abstract.

2020

Manzo LC, Devine-Wright P (2020). Introduction. In (Ed) Place Attachment, 1-10.

Devine-Wright P (2020). Place attachment. In (Ed) The Routledge Handbook of Place, 506-517.

2019

Devine-Wright P (2019). Between fixities and flows: Navigating place attachments in an increasingly mobile world. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 61, 125-133.

Devine-Wright P (2019). Community versus local energy in a context of climate emergency. Nature Energy, 4(11), 894-896.

2018

Devine-Wright P (2018). Environmental Psychology. In Castree N, Hulme M, Longhurst (Eds.) Companion to Environmental Studies, Routledge. Abstract.

Manzo LC, Devine-Wright P (2018). Place attachment. In (Ed) Environmental Psychology: an Introduction, 135-143. Abstract.

Bauwens T, Devine-Wright P (2018). Positive energies? an empirical study of community energy participation and attitudes to renewable energy. Energy Policy, 118, 612-625. Abstract.

2017

Devine‐Wright P (2017). Environment, Democracy, and Public Participation. In (Ed) International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology, 1-10.

Devine-Wright P, Cotton M (2017). Experiencing citizen deliberation over energy infrastructure siting. In (Ed) The Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies, 184-199.

Fleming P, Webber P, Chadwick H, Devine-Wright P (2017). Greenhouse Gas inventory. In (Ed) Changing by Degrees: the Potential Impacts of Climate Change in the East Midlands, 185-219.

Bickerstaff K, Johnstone P (2017). The re-scaling of energy politics: UK nuclear facility siting in historical context. In (Ed) The Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies, 139-152.

2016

Abstract.

2015

Devine-Wright P (2015). Local attachments and identities. Progress in Human Geography, 39(4), 527-530.

Devine-Wright P (2015). Public Engagement with Large-Scale Renewable Energy Technologies: Breaking the Cycle of NIMBYism. In (Ed) Wind Resources and Future Energy Security, 265-280.

Rydin Y, Guy S, Goodier C, Chmutina K, Devine-Wright P, Wiersma B (2015). The financial entanglements of local energy projects. Geoforum, 59, 1-11. Abstract.

2014

Chmutina K, Wiersma B, Goodier CI, Devine-Wright P (2014). Concern or compliance? Drivers of urban decentralised energy initiatives. Sustainable Cities and Society, 10, 122-129. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P (2014). Conclusions. In (Ed) Renewable Energy and the Public: from NIMBY to Participation, 317-321.

Devine-Wright P, Wrapson W, Henshaw V, Guy S (2014). Low carbon heating and older adults: Comfort, cosiness and glow. Building Research and Information, 42(3), 288-299. Abstract.

Devine-Wright P (2014). Planning and Place in the City: Mapping Place Identity, Marichela Sepe. International Development Planning Review, 36(4), 509-511.

Wiersma B, Devine-Wright P (2014). Public engagement with offshore renewable energy: a critical review. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE, 5(4), 493-507. Author URL.

Devine-Wright P (2014). Public engagement with renewable energy: Introduction. In (Ed) Renewable Energy and the Public: from NIMBY to Participation, xxi-xxx.

2013