Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE230101151
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$454,532.00
Summary
Harnessing social norms to find a socially acceptable energy transition. This project aims to discover the potential of social norms to enable energy-producing communities to explore and define a socially acceptable energy transition. By implementing and evaluating a new social norm change intervention in the Upper Hunter region, this project expects to generate new knowledge about what matters most to communities facing transition, and how norms, identities, and networks interact to enable or c ....Harnessing social norms to find a socially acceptable energy transition. This project aims to discover the potential of social norms to enable energy-producing communities to explore and define a socially acceptable energy transition. By implementing and evaluating a new social norm change intervention in the Upper Hunter region, this project expects to generate new knowledge about what matters most to communities facing transition, and how norms, identities, and networks interact to enable or constrain change. Outcomes include direct input to energy transition planning, enhanced collaboration with policy and civil society, and new international research networks. This should provide significant benefits by helping Australian communities and policy-makers navigate the local impacts of global energy transition.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE230101175
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$429,744.00
Summary
Contested Geographies of Terrestrial Carbon. National pledges to tackle climate change rely heavily on land to sequester and store carbon. How competing ideas about land use are negotiated and institutionalised in the climate regime is critical to effective, just and legitimate climate responses. This project aims to explain the political economy of the science and policy of land-based climate mitigation, generating new knowledge on who promotes carbon sinks and why. The expected project outcome ....Contested Geographies of Terrestrial Carbon. National pledges to tackle climate change rely heavily on land to sequester and store carbon. How competing ideas about land use are negotiated and institutionalised in the climate regime is critical to effective, just and legitimate climate responses. This project aims to explain the political economy of the science and policy of land-based climate mitigation, generating new knowledge on who promotes carbon sinks and why. The expected project outcomes include guidelines to advance more just and sustainable land use through improved carbon accounting practices, using an innovative approach that combines stakeholder interviews, discourse analysis, and expert elicitation. These outcomes will notably benefit rural communities and farmers.Read moreRead less