La confiance est-elle négociable ? La construction d’un intérêt général territorialisé pour l’acceptation des parcs éoliens offshore de Saint Brieuc et Saint Nazaire

Jean-Eudes Beuret

Géographie, économie, société, 2016, vol. 18, issue 3, 335-358

Abstract: Building offshore wind farm creates a tension between global environmental stakes (related to climate change) and local environmental issues. Alongside those «green on green» oppositions (Warren and al., 2005), other tensions exist between environmental stakes and local and global economic issues. Project?s local acceptance requires the construction of a territorial social contract, reflecting a «place-based general interest». Using the cases of Saint Nazaire and Saint Brieuc wind farm projects in Western France, we study this construction, specifically the conflict and concertative processes. This leads us to identify four recurrent mechanisms founding project?s acceptance and agreement: the priorization of actors and stakes, project?s adjustment, a transactions and compensations game between planners and local stakeholders, but also between local stakeholders, the construction of new organized proximities, vital to face economic and environmental uncertainties related to this type of projects. This leads to highlight uncertainties? weight and trust?s importance, which is built by a game of proximities periodically challenged. © 2016 Lavoisier, Paris. Tous droits réservés

Keywords: negotiation; offshore wind farm; territorial governance; place-based general interest; coastal zone (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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