Energy in place : a case study and mental models analysis of engagement in community scale energy planning
department or school: Science, Faculty of
department or school: Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), Institute for
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Salter, Jonathan
issued: 2015-11-15T02:26:15
issued: 2015
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This dissertation has two primary research threads. The first is a case study analysis of three community scale energy planning engagement processes in British Columbia, including community energy and greenhouse gas emissions workshops conducted in the City of Vancouver as part of the Greenest City Conversations Project (GCCP), stakeholder workshops as part of the City of Victoria’s Community Energy and Emissions Plan (CEEP), and public workshops conducted in the City of Revelstoke that investigated the relationships between urban form, energy, and climate change. The second research thread investigates the use of a mental models methodology for evaluating the impacts of engagement on the workshop participants. The research first examines the literature on public engagement in sustainability planning, and the literature on mental models methodologies, developing the rationale for a mental models approach to evaluating engagement in community scale energy planning. The research then turns to the development and conduct of the mental models methodology, starting with initial practitioner interviews to describe the community scale energy domain. These interviews revealed key themes about energy and related subjects that contributed to both the GCCP workshop development, and the construction of the dissertation’s primary research instrument, the pre and post workshop questionnaires. Workshop participants existing mental models of energy are then analyzed based on the results of the pre-workshop questionnaires, using a Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and hierarchical clustering procedure. This analysis revealed the presence of six primary clusters of energy mental models amongst participants that were used to organize and interpret subsequent research results. The final phase of the research combines a case study and mental models evaluation of the three community energy engagement processes, beginning with the dissertation’s primary research vehicle (the GCCP wor…
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note: Energy in Place: A Case Study and Mental Models Analysis of Engagement in Community Scale Energy Planning. by Jonathan Salter MSc. The University of British Columbia, 2005. A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF Doctor of Philosophy in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Resource Management and Environmental Studies) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) November 2015 © Jonathan Salter, 2015 ii Abstract This dissertation has two primary research threads. The first is a case study analysis of three community scale energy planning engagement processes in British Columbia, including community energy and greenhouse gas emissions workshops conducted in the City of Vancouver as part of the Greenest City Conversations Project (GCCP), stakeholder workshops as part of the City of Victoria’s Community Energy and Emissions Plan (CEEP), and public workshops conducted in the City of Revelstoke that investigated the relationships between urban form, energy, and climate change. The second research thread investigates the use of a mental models methodology for evaluating the impacts of engagement on the workshop participants. The research first examines the literature on public engagement in sustainability planning, and the literature on mental models methodologies, developing the rationale for a mental models approach to evaluating engagement in community scale energy planning. The research then turns to the development and conduct of the mental models methodology, starting with initial practitioner interviews to describe the community scale energy domain. These interviews revealed key themes about energy and related subjects that contributed to both the GCCP workshop development, and the construction of the dissertation’s primary research instrument, the pre and post workshop questionnaires. Workshop participants existing mental models of energy are then analyzed based on the results of the pre-workshop questionnaire…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2016-02
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0215914
language: eng
degree discipline: Resource Management and Environmental Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/55320