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This study involved a team of eight investigators from six UK universities (University of Manchester, Lancaster University, Loughborough University, Northumbria University, University of Strathclyde and University of Surrey). It aimed to increase understanding of public responses to renewable energy technologies, and looked at the local experience of resistance and consent, and ways in which public engagement is constructed and practised in the UK. The data available from the UK Data Archive includes a dataset with responses to a survey administrated in seven case study areas which were all sites of renewable energy projects around the UK with varying technologies (tidal, marine, bioenergy, offshore and onshore wind). The case study areas are: 1 - Llandudno and Colwyn Bay, North Wales 2 - Strangford and Portaferry, Northern Ireland 3 - Port Talbot, South Wales 4 - Skegness, Lincolnshire and Hunstanton, Norfolk 5 - Villages of Great Houghton, Hardingstone and Wootton in Northamptonshire and Falkirk, Scotland 6 - St. Davids, Dale and Marloes in Pembrokeshire 7 - Kilbirnie, Scotland Further information is available from the Beyond Nimbyism project web pages and the ESRC Award web page.

Main Topics:

Topics covered included attitudes to:local environmentclimate changelocal energy projectsStandard measures: Likert scales Also uses a published measure of place attachment devised by Spanish researchers (see: Hernandez, B. et al (2007). 'Place attachment and place identity in natives and non-natives', Journal of Environmental Psychology, 27, pp.310–319).

Purposive selection/case studies

Sampled random householders that were resident in close proximity (i.e. less than 5km) from the site of a renewable energy project

Postal survey